Fulfilling the growing water demand, at domestic, industrial and agriculture level, is the most challenging task and groundwater plays the most important role for achieving this demand. In this scenario, proper management of groundwater resources is the most required act, as unmanaged groundwater extraction may cause shrinking of aquifer, sea water intrusion and water quality problems. The simu...

This study focused on whether or not atrazine could be degraded by indigenous groundwater bacteria as part of an in situ remediation approach. Groundwater was taken from an unconfined middle upper chalk site where concentrations of atrazine and nitrate were typically in the ranges 0.02-0.2 microg litre-1 and 11.6-25.1 mg NO3-N litre-1 respectively. Sacrificial batch studies were performed using...

Elevated concentrations of arsenic, up to 161 μg/L, have been identified in groundwater samples from the confined basal aquifer underlying the aquitard of the Pearl River Delta (PRD). Both aquatic arsenic in pore water and solid arsenic in the sediments in the basal aquifer and aquitard were identified. Arsenic speciation of groundwater in the basal aquifer was elucidated on a pH-Eh diagram. In...

[1] Northern India and its surroundings, home to roughly 600 million people, is probably the most heavily irrigated region in the world. Temporal changes in Earth’s gravity field in this region as recorded by the GRACE satellite mission, reveal a steady, large-scale mass loss that we attribute to excessive extraction of groundwater. Combining the GRACE data with hydrological models to remove na...

There are applications of barrier technology where the variability in hydraulic conductivity from point to point in the barrier, in addition to the average hydraulic conductivity of the barrier, is important. Throughout this chapter, the following application will be referred to in order to demonstrate this point: use of a circumferential soil-bentonite cutoff wall to completely enclose a conta...

A highly sensitive analytical procedure is described for determining thiodiglycol in groundwater. Samples are initially fortified with 3,3'-thiodipropanol (surrogate), then both species are extracted using sequential solid-phase extraction with both C18 and Ambersorb 572 columns. The C18 column, which removes extraneous groundwater components, is discarded; the Ambersorb 572 column is dried tho...

Quasi three-dimensional (quasi-3D)modelling plays a major role in analysis of groundwater flow in multiaquifer systems and it can be an efficient tool for artificial recharge modelling. As the role of artificial recharge in groundwater management continues to increase, analysis of responses to artificial recharge has a particular significance. This paper deals with some practical aspects of the...

We investigate the behavior of farmers who share an underground aquifer. In the case where seepage may occur the resource is nonexclusive, giving rise to a spatial externality whereby pumping by one user affects others nearby. Theoretically, these externalities are potentially important causes of welfare loss. Using a unique spatial data set of groundwater users in western Kansas, we are able t...