1st Edition
Urban Groundwater, Meeting the Challenge IAH Selected Papers on Hydrogeology 8
Introduction
Preface: Matthias Eiswirth Memorial
RECHARGE MECHANISMS AND THE URBAN WATER BALANCE
1. Urban-enhanced groundwater recharge: review and case study of Austin, Texas, USA
2. Flow and solute transport monitoring at an urban lysimeter at Union Brewery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
3. Urban infrastructure and its impact on groundwater contamination
4. Urban groundwater problems in Cork city, southwest Ireland
SEWER EXFILTRATION
5. Impact on urban groundwater by wastewater infiltration into soils
6. Direct measurements of exfiltration in a sewer test site in a medium-sized city in southwest Germany
7. Upscaling of laboratory results on sewer leakage and the associated uncertainty
ASSESSMENT OF CONTAMINANT IMPACTS
8. Groundwater flow velocities indicated by anthropogenic contaminants in urban sandstone aquifers
9. Development of a GIS model for assessing groundwater pollution from small scale petrol spills
10. Assessment of groundwater contaminant vulnerability in an urban watershed in southeast Michigan, USA
11. Xenobiotics in urban areas - investigation and estimation of chemical fluxes
URBAN RECHARGE MANAGEMENT
12. Conjunctive use of urban surface water and groundwater for improved urban water security
13. Stormwater infiltration technologies for augmenting groundwater recharge in urban areas
14. Aspects of urban groundwater management and use in India
URBAN AQUIFER MANAGEMENT
15. Evaluating groundwater allocation alternatives in an urban setting using a geographic information system data model
16. Can urban groundwater problems be transformed into new water resources?
17. Hydraulic Interactions between aquifers in the Viterbo area (Central Italy)
18. Alarming rise in groundwater levels beneath the city of Jodphur: an example of ground and surface water interaction in the Thar Desert of western India
19. Groundwater modelling to evaluate the risk of aquifer depletion due to a construction site in an urban area in Basel, Switzerland
20. Urban groundwater resources: a case study of Porto city in northwest Portugal
21. Water resources management in Taiz, Yemen: a comprehensive overview
Index
Biography
Ken F. W. Howard is Vice-President of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH), Chair of the IAH Commission on Groundwater in Urban Areas, and Professor of Hydrogeology at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, Canada.
