Hydrogeology & Groundwater Books

New and Published Books

1. Urban Watersheds

   Geology, Contamination, and Sustainable Development

   By Martin M. Kaufman, Daniel T. Rogers, Kent S. Murray

   With the continuing increase in population, more people are sharing the finite resources of the urban watershed, resulting in new and increasingly complex interactions between humans and the environment. Environmental contamination is a chronic problem—and an expensive one. In urban areas, water...

   Published April 24th 2011 by CRC Press
2. Groundwater Hydrology

   Engineering, Planning, and Management

   By M. Karamouz, A. Ahmadi, M. Akhbari

   Increasing demand for water, higher standards of living, depletion of resources of acceptable quality, and excessive water pollution due to urban, agricultural, and industrial expansions have caused intense environmental, social, economic, and political predicaments. More frequent and severe floods...

   Published March 14th 2011 by CRC Press
3. Groundwater Response to Changing Climate

   Edited by Makoto Taniguchi, Ian P. Holman

   Series: IAH - Selected Papers on Hydrogeology

   Groundwater systems are vital to both society and the environment, supporting food production and many other ecosystem services. Sustainable management of this vital resource for future generations requires a sound understanding of how groundwater might respond to the inevitable changes in future...

   Published January 11th 2010 by CRC Press
4. Fractured Rock Hydraulics

   By Fernando Olavo Franciss

   Uniquely devoted to hard and fractured rock hydraulics, this advanced-level introduction provides tools to solve practical engineering problems. Chapter I covers the fundamentals of fractured rock hydraulics under a tensor approach. Chapter II presents some key concepts about approximate solutions....

   Published November 15th 2009 by CRC Press
5. Sustainable Groundwater Resources in Africa

   Water supply and sanitation environment

   Edited by Yongxin Xu, Eberhard Braune

   Empowering people, reducing poverty, improving livelihoods and promoting economic growth, while at the ensuring sustainable ecosystems, requires local, appropriate and widely replicable solutions. In the search for these, poor sanitation and poor water supply are major drivers in cycles of...

   Published October 15th 2009 by CRC Press
6. Groundwater Governance in the Indo-Gangetic and Yellow River Basins

   Realities and Challenges

   Edited by Aditi Mukherji, Karen G. Villholth, Bharat R. Sharma, Jinxia Wang

   Series: IAH - Selected Papers on Hydrogeology

   One of the key features of agricultural development in the last five decades has been intensive groundwater use in the Indo-Gangetic Basin (Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh) and in the Yellow River Basin (China). Groundwater irrigates almost 60% of the net irrigated area in South Asia and 70%...

   Published June 7th 2009 by CRC Press
7. Applied Groundwater Studies in Africa

   IAH Selected Papers on Hydrogeology, volume 13

   Edited by Segun Adelana, Alan MacDonald

   Series: IAH - Selected Papers on Hydrogeology

   Groundwater is Africa’s most precious natural resource, providing reliable water supplies for many people. Further development of groundwater resources is fundamental to increasing access to safe water across the continent to meet coverage targets and reduce poverty. There is also an...

   Published September 22nd 2008 by Taylor & Francis
8. Aquifer Systems Management: Darcy’s Legacy in a World of Impending Water Shortage

   Selected Papers on Hydrogeology 10

   Edited by Laurence Chery, Ghislain de Marsily

   Series: IAH - Selected Papers on Hydrogeology

   By 2050, the demand for water to sustain world agriculture will increase by seventy-five per cent in order to feed an estimated nine billion inhabitants. Increased amounts of water will be required for irrigation and for industrial and domestic use. Natural ecosystems will be threatened...

   Published September 5th 2007 by Taylor & Francis
9. Groundwater Vulnerability Assessment and Mapping

   IAH-Selected Papers, volume 11

   Edited by Andrzej J. Witkowski, Andrzej Kowalczyk, Jaroslav Vrba

   Series: IAH - Selected Papers on Hydrogeology

   This volume presents the contemporary issues surrounding groundwater pollution risk assessment and the application of vulnerability and risk assessment maps for the effective protection and management of aquifers. Numerous new and improved approaches to intrinsic and specific vulnerability...

   Published August 23rd 2007 by Taylor & Francis
10. Groundwater Pollution in Africa

    Edited by Yongxin Xu, Brent Usher

    In 2000, various UN organizations launched a collaborative effort to assess the vulnerability of groundwater in several African cities. The project addressed the issue of aquifer vulnerability and the protection of groundwater quality. This book is a collection of thirty peer-reviewed papers on the...

    Published October 4th 2006 by Taylor & Francis