Groundwater (GW) is a significant freshwater resource for domestic, industrial and irrigation water supply in the India. During last decades, the demand of groundwater supply for drinking, domestic, irrigation, industrial and multipurpose uses has increased due to the rapidly rising population and constant desire for a better lifestyle in developing countries. Increasing demand for fresh water ...

Groundwater is closely coupled with stream­ flow to maintain water supply to riparian vegetation, parti­ cularly where precipitation is seasonal. A case study is presented where Mediterranean climate and groundwater extraction are linked with the decline of riparian vegeta­ tion and subsequent severe bank erosion on the Carmel River in Carmel Valley, California.

DOI 10.1007/s10040-002-0225-5 Abstract Suzhou City, located at the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in southeastern Jiangsu Province, is one of the few cities in China which suffer from severe ground settlement. A research project was carried out to investigate this problem. Geological and hydrogeological studies show that there is a multi-layered aquifer system with three distinct, soft mud ...

A natural consequence of groundwater withdrawals is the removal of water from subsurface storage, but the overall rates and magnitude of groundwater depletion and capture relative to groundwater withdrawals (extraction or pumpage) have not previously been well characterized. This study assesses the partitioning of long-term cumulative withdrawal volumes into fractions derived from storage deple...