Proceedings of a Symposium held at Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, April 2005
Groundwater indicators are based on monitoring and assessment programmes and are helpful for several reasons, e.g. they may be used to identify the state of the groundwater system, both in terms of its quantity and quality, and its evaluation over time and space; they also facilitate communication between policy makers and the general public. Indicators should be selected and developed which provide information on the threat to groundwater systems from the point of view of societal and ecological needs.
The contributions in this volume summarize much of the state of the art in the field of groundwater sustainability and its indicators.
IAHS Publ. 302 (July 2006), ISBN 1-90150243-0, 224 pp. price £45.00
Preface by Bruce Webb
Groundwater resources sustainability indicators
Jaroslav Vrba, Ricardo Hirata, Jan Girman, Naim Haie, Annukka Lipponen, Tushaar Shah & Bill Wallin, 3-9
Using sustainability indicators as a basis for classifying groundwater in South Africa
Roger Parsons & Johan Wentzel, 10-20
Indicators and indexes of groundwater quality sustainability
Anna Belousova, 21-28
Development of groundwater sustainability indicators
Zhi-Qiang Wang & Qiang Wu, 29-34
Ukrainian hydro-economic complex under conditions of sustainable development
N. S. Ognianik, N. K. Paramonova, E. N. Shpak & R. B. Gavriluk, 35-42
Groundwater sustainability indicators for the Brahmaputra basin in the northeastern region of India
U. C. Sharma & Vikas Sharma, 43-50
Using models to manage systems subject to sustainability indicators
Mary C. Hill, 53-58
Groundwater flow model of the Lower San Pedro River basin for the sustainability of riparian habitats
Jonathan Whittier & Thomas Maddock, III, 59-66
Fluxes, numerical models and sustainability of groundwater resources
Maciek W. Lubczynski, 67-77
Using computer systems to predict the changes in groundwater elevations due to recharge from rainwater harvesting
Abdulghani A. Hasan & Anass M. M. Rasheed, 78-88
Water table fluctuations: an indicator of hydrological behaviour in the northwest region of Buenos Aires Province (Argentina)
Eduardo Kruse, Juan Alberto Forte Lay & Jose Luis Aiello, 91-97
Regional groundwater drought mapping for sustainable management
M. Krishnaveni, G. Ravikumar & K. Karunakaran, 98-105
A study of surface water and groundwater using isotopes in Huaishahe basin in Beijing, China
Liu Xiangchao, Xia Jun, Song Xianfang, Yu Jingjie,Tang Changyuan & Zhan Chesheng, 106-114
Alluvial aquifer indicators for small-scale irrigation in northeast Brazil
Rae Mackay, Abelardo Montenegro, Suzana Montenegro & Jan Van Wonderen, 117-125
Using performance indicators for the analysis of water use in the Mendoza irrigated area
J. A. Morábito, E. P. Querner & D. Tozzi, 126-133
Hydrological processes within an intensively cultivated alluvial plain in an arid environment
Qiuhong Tang, Heping Hu & Taikan Oki, 134-144
Using geoinformatics to estimate nitrate leaching to groundwater in the Azraq basin in Jordan due to human activities
Serwan M. J. Baban, Ian Foster & Rida Al-Adamat, 147-157
Analysis of NO3-N pollution with a distributed groundwater quality model
Hiroaki Somura, Akira Goto, Hiroyuki Matsui, Elhassan Ali Musa & Masakazu Mizutani, 158-171
Role of water quality and groundwater fluctuations as precursors in sustainable development and management of groundwater resources
P. Rajendra Prasad, C. Subba Rao & N. V. B. S. S. Prasad, 172-183
Groundwater resources assessment at a local scale: monitoring of industrial effluents in a wetland
Marta Paris, Mónica D´Elia, Marcela Perez & Ofelia Tujchneider, 184-192
Assessment of saline–freshwater interface structure in the Indian coastal delta complexes
Indugula Radhakrishna, 193-202
Key word index, 203
Author index, 205