Groundwater assessment and management for sustainable water-supply and coordinated subsurface drainage : a guidebook for water utilities and municipal authorities / Stephen Foster and Radu Gogu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foster, Stephen, author.

Gogu, Radu, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Groundwater--Quality--Measurement.

Groundwater.

Groundwater flow--Measurement.

Groundwater flow.

Water-supply--Management--Environmental aspects.

Water-supply.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (56 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : IWA Publishing, 2022.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Groundwater beneath cities is important. Water utilities and private abstractors use is it as a secure source of water-supply and municipal authorities have to cope with it when planning sanitation and using underground space for building and transportation infrastructure, but all too often neither have a comprehensive understanding. This Guidebook aims to highlight what water utilities and municipal government can do to improve groundwater assessment, management and monitoring to avoid experiencing 'nasty surprises'. Groundwater, especially from deeper aquifers, is a critical resource for enhancing urban water-supply security under climate-change stress. But to achieve its use sustainably will require adaptive promotion of resource management and protection, according to local circumstances. In recent times municipal governments are making much more use of urban subsurface space (especially down to 15-metres depth) for construction. Traditionally the drainage and stability of such structures were achieved by individual site investigation, but today a more coordinated approach is needed to managing shallow groundwater conditions. The Guidebook is divided into three complementary parts: Part A is intended for guidance of water-utility, together with water-resource agency and municipal sanitation department, staff working to improve urban water-supply resilience, with its inevitable requirement to get more involved in groundwater management. Part B is intended for guidance of municipal government authorities working to improve the design and execution of urban infrastructure to avoid potentially costly subsurface drainage issues, structural instability and groundwater flooding problems. Part C provides a series of case histories on urban groundwater management from around the world.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part A: Groundwater for Urban Water-Supply

A1 ESSENTIAL DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES

Why is groundwater important to water utilities?

How can groundwater impact water service utilities?

What data are needed to diagnose groundwater management needs?

How is private urban waterwell use relevant to water utilities?

Could water utilities have 'hidden interests' in groundwater management?

Who has the institutional responsibility for groundwater resources?

Does your water utility have capacity for groundwater management?

A2 FORMULATING STRATEGIC ACTIONS

What actions are needed as regards groundwater resource management?

What actions are needed as regards groundwater quality protection?

How can groundwater monitoring be strengthened for adaptive management?

Part B: Groundwater Hazards for Urban Infrastructure

B1 CHARACTERISATION OF PROBLEMS

Why is groundwater important to city infrastructure planning?

How does urbanisation impact the groundwater regime?

What data are needed to diagnose subsurface management needs?

Who has institutional responsibility for urban groundwater resources?

Can your agency contribute effectively to urban groundwater management?

B2 ESSENTIAL STEPS FOR INTEGRATED ACTION

Which procedures can ensure that groundwater considerations are always included in urban planning?

What types of groundwater information are essential for the urban planning process?

How should the development of urban subsurface space be administered with regard to groundwater considerations?

Part C: Examples of Urban Groundwater Management

C1 BANGKOK (THAILAND)

Major reduction and redistribution of groundwater abstraction to control land subsidence (data from Buapeng &amp

Foster, 2008)

C2 LIMA (PERU).

Planned conjunctive use to stabilise the groundwater reserves of a critical aquifer in a hyper-arid setting (data from Foster et al., 2010c)

C3 HAMBURG (GERMANY)

Well-managed groundwater resource development with emphasis on monitoring for quality protection (data from Foster et al., 2020b)

C4 BUCHAREST (ROMANIA)

Improving understanding of a shallow groundwater system to aid design and operation of subsurface infrastructure (data from Gogu, 2019)

C5 BEBERIBE (AQUIFER)

Use of the beberibe aquifer as a strategic water-supply reserve and regulating private groundwater supply (data from Foster et al., 2010a)

C6 LUSAKA (ZAMBIA)

Efforts to confront groundwater quality protection and meet pro-poor demand in a fast-growing city (data from Nkhuwa, 2003

Kangomba &amp

Bãumle, 2013

and Foster et al., 2020a)

References.

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Other Format:

Print version: Foster, Stephen Groundwater Assessment and Management: for Sustainable Water-Supply and Coordinated Subsurface Drainage

ISBN:

9781789063110

1789063116

9781789063127

1789063124

OCLC:

1333083777