Groundwater management for sound and sustainable hydrologic cycle

Aquifer Vulnerability Assessment for Sustainable Groundwater Management Using DRASTIC

Groundwater management and protection has been facilitated by computational modeling of aquifer vulnerability and monitoring aquifers using groundwater sampling. The DRASTIC (Depth to water, Recharge, Aquifer media, Soil media, Topography, Impact of vadose zone media, and hydraulic Conductivity) model, an overlay and index GIS model, has been used for groundwater quality assessment because it r...

Groundwater Provides and Receives Hydrologic System Services.

The concept of Environmental or Ecologic System Services (ESS) is well established in the technical, social science, and policy literatures, and is useful for assessing economic and/or social values of natural resources, and identifying potential impacts of planned or proposed management decisions. The ESS concept has been applied widely to water resources and aquatic habitats, for example, val...

Modeling sustainable groundwater management: packaging and sequencing of policy interventions.

Of the many studies estimating effectiveness of policy reforms most have been considering various types of policy reforms in isolation from each other. Such pattern has also been the case in water resource regulations. In the case of groundwater almost all policy interventions considered in the literature have been implemented individually, without taking into account the possible interactions ...

A Stochastic Optimization Model for Groundwater Management

Ending groundwater overdraft in hydrologic-economic systems

Groundwater overdraft occurs when extraction exceeds both natural and induced aquifer recharge over long periods. While ultimately unsustainable and invariably having detrimental effects, overdrafting aquifers is common and may be temporarily beneficial within a longterm water management strategy. Once a region chooses to end overdrafting, water management must change if increased water scarcit...