1st Edition
Groundwater Intensive Use IAH Selected Papers on Hydrogeology 7
Intensive use of groundwater has resolved the demand for drinking water and, through irrigation, has contributed to the eradication of malnourishment in many developing countries. The spectacular worldwide increase in groundwater use in the last decades, especially in arid and semi-arid regions, has been a silent revolution carried out by millions of small farmers. In some instances, groundwater abstraction has caused problems of quality degradation, excessive drawdown of groundwater levels, land subsidence, reduction of spring and baseflows or degradation of groundwater-dependent ecosystems. Most of these problems could be anticipated, mitigated, or even avoided with more active water agencies, adequate regulations and users’ participation in management. Groundwater Intensive Use contains a selection of papers presented at a symposium held in December 2002 in Valencia, Spain. It constitutes a step forward in creating a greater worldwide awareness of the relevance of groundwater in water resources policy. The book presents new ideas and accounts of recent advances in technical, economic, legal, administrative and political issues. It addresses groundwater development to ecosystems sustainability, through different or complementary approaches. A wide series of case studies from North and South America, Europe, South Asia and North and Sub-Saharan Africa cover the various issues. These case studies represent countries with a wide diversity of social circumstances, from areas in which development is emerging, to communities with a long history of successful groundwater use.
Contents
Presentation IX
E. Custodio
Foreword XIII
M. R. Llamas
Sponsors XV
ETHICAL, ECONOMICAL, AND LEGAL ASPECTS
Ethical issues in relation to intensive groundwater use 03
M.R. Llamas and P. Martínez-Santos
Governing the groundwater economy: comparative analysis of national institutions and policies in
South Asia, China and Mexico 23
T. Shah
Socio-Ecology of groundwater irrigation in South Asia: an overview of issues and evidence 53
A. Mukherji and T. Shah
Legal issues of intensive use of groundwater 79
A. Embid
Intensive use of groundwater in the European Union Water Framework Directive 93
J. Samper
CASE HISTORIES
Making intensive use of groundwater more sustainable – key lessons from field experience 105
S. Foster, H. Garduño, K. Kemper, A. Tuinhof and M. Nanni
Aquifer overexploitation in Libya – the Gefara plain case 127
O.M. Salem
Lessons from intensively used transboundary river basin agreements for transboundary aquifers 137
S. Puri, L. Gaines, A. Wolf and T. Jarvis
Opportunities and challenges of intensive use of groundwater in Sub-Saharan Africa 147
C. Colvin and B. Chipimpi
Overview of the groundwater resources of Canada 157
A. Rivera and M. Nastev
Intensive use of groundwater in Latin America 167
E.M. Bocanegra
Intensive use of aquifers by mining activity in Northern Chile 177
O. Acosta
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IMPACTS
The impact of intense urban and mine abstraction of water on groundwater resources of the
regional Triassic aquifer systems (Southern Poland) 189
A. Kowalczyk
Priority rights for nature: a true constraint on aquifer over-exploitation? 199
E. Feitelson
Effects of localised intensive aquifer exploitation on the Doñana wetlands (SW Spain) 209
M. Manzano, E. Custodio, C. Mediavilla and C. Montes
Poverty alleviation versus mass poisoning: the dilemma of groundwater irrigation in Bangladesh 221
M. Mainuddin
Fluoride contamination of groundwater in India – country update 237
H.T. Chaturvedi, D. Chandrasekharam and A.A. Jalihal
Impacts of increasing abstraction on groundwater quality in two areas of Southern Yemen 245
J. Dottridge and P. Hardisty
When intensive exploitation is a blessing: effects of ceasing intensive exploitation in the city of
Barcelona 253
E. Vázquez-Suñé, X. Sánchez-Vila, J. Carrera and R. Arandes
Effect of intensive pumping of infiltrated water in the Plaça de la Vila parking lot in
Sant Adrià del Besós (Barcelona, Spain) 261
M. Ondiviela, E. Vázquez-Suñé, J. Nilsson, J. Carrera, X. Sánchez-Vila and J. Casas
Predicting impacts of abstraction reduction for an aquifer with a century of exploitation 269
M. Shepley
Importance of hydrogeological modeling in the management of groundwater, a case study:
the coast of Hermosillo Aquifer, Sonora, México 277
M. Rangel-Medina, R. Monreal, M. Morales, J. Castillo and H. Valenzuela
The analysis of the intensive use of groundwater in the Upper Guadiana Basin (Spain) using a
numerical model 285
L. Martínez Cortina and J. Cruces
Evolution of groundwater intensive development in the coastal aquifer of Telde (Gran Canaria,
Canarian archipelago, Spain) 295
M.C. Cabrera and E. Custodio
MANAGEMENT
Water management issues related to aquifer intensive use 309
E. Usunoff
Groundwater depletion and its socio–ecological consequences in Sabarmati river basin, India 319
M.D. Kumar, O.P. Singh and K. Singh
Intensive use of groundwater in North Gujarat, India. Challenges and opportunities 331
A.K. Sinha and R. Jain
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The study on sustainable groundwater resources and environmental management for the Langat
Basin in Basin in Malaysia 341
S. Suratman
CONJUNCTIVE USE
Effective management of water resources in a region of intensive groundwater use: a lesson from
Arizona’s Valley of the Sun 353
M.R. Lluria
Water resources management of an overexploited aquifer. The Adra-Campo de Dalías system,
Almería, Spain 361
A. Sahuquillo, J. Andreu, M. Pulido, J. Paredes, A. Sánchez, V. Pinilla and J. Capilla.
Opportunities of conjunctive use of groundwater and surface water 371
A. Rivera, A. Sahuquillo, J. Andreu and A. Mukherji
VALENCIA DECLARATION 385
Subject Index 387
Biography
Andrés Sahuquillo, J. Capilla, Luis Martinez Cortina, X. Sanchez Vila
