A recent email I sent to a group of hydrogeologists and fellow travelers reiterated my desire to establish an online community for groundwater and IWRM. I am still working towards that and am searching for a suitable platform. Over 100 people have indicated they would like to be included. Click here if you want more information.
The email elicited a number of responses and a few relevant publications.
Stephen Foster, formerly with the British Geological Survey and now with the World Bank's GW-MATE (Groundwater Management Team) sent along a couple of publications:
Download GW-MATE SO-1 Groundwater Governance (Oct 2009)
and a recent paper by himself and Mohamed Ait-Kadi of the Global Water Partnership (GWP), "Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM): How does groundwater fit in?" (from Hydrogeology Journal (2012) 20: 412-415);
Download IAH-HJ IWRM-How Does Groundwater Fit (Foster & Ait-Kadi - 2012)
I enjoyed this paper, lucid, succinct, relevant. Table 1 is especially helpful, as it provides a hydrologically consistent approach to reconciling river basin catchments with groundwater bodies for integrated water resources management (click on the table to enlarge):
An additional hydrogeological condition should be listed: that of an extensive, multi-aquifer system underlying several river basins in a humid region.
Very good article - be sure to read it.
Kevin McCray, Executive director of the National Ground Water Association (NGWA) sent this white paper on groundwater sustainability that NGWA produced in 2005:
Download GW_Sustain_final_white_paper_2005
Here are two more I discovered:
1) Another GW-MATE publication, a training manual titled, Groundwater Management in IWRM.
2) From GWP and INBO via Ari Michelsen: Handbook of IWRM in Transboundary Basins of Rivers, Lakes and Aquifers.
Enough to keep you and me busy for a while!
Enjoy!
"Throughout the history of literature, the guy who poisons the well has been the worst of all villains..." - Unknown (thanks to the Northwest Kansas Groundwater Management District 4)
Stephen Foster, formerly with the British Geological Survey and now with the World Bank's GW-MATE ……… So you are asking me to believe the endeavors of the WORLD BANK is authentically directed for the benefit of the common man … perhaps you are unaware of the environmental devastation the result of projects funded by the WORLD BANK which benefit only the world’s banking cartel …..
Posted by: PAUL F MILLER | Tuesday, 10 July 2012 at 08:24 AM