Groundwater in Urban Development : Assessing Management Needs & Formulating Policy Strategies
People have clustered at the water's edge throughout civilization for the most fundamental of reasons: without water there is no life. Every major city in the world has a body of water or aquifer nearby, since rivers and lakes predetermined wh...
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okr-10986-117482021-04-23T14:02:57Z Groundwater in Urban Development : Assessing Management Needs & Formulating Policy Strategies Foster, Stephen Lawrence, Adrian Morris, Brian AQUIFER AQUIFERS BOREHOLES CLEAN WATER COASTAL AREAS COMPACTION CONSTRUCTION CONTAMINANTS DOMESTIC WATER DOMESTIC WATER SUPPLY DRAINAGE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS DRINKING WATER EFFLUENT DISPOSAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT FILTRATION FRESH WATER GROUNDWATER GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT GROUNDWATER POLLUTION GROUNDWATER PROTECTION GROUNDWATER QUALITY GROUNDWATER RECHARGE GROUNDWATER RESOURCES GROUNDWATER SUPPLIES ICE INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENTS INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER IRRIGATION LAKES LAND SURFACE LAND USE LEAKAGE OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT PERCOLATE PIPE POLLUTION POLLUTION CONTROL POPULATION DENSITY PUBLIC WATER PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY PUMPING RAINFALL RIVERS RUNOFF SANITATION SEWAGE SEWERAGE SOLID WASTE SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL SURFACE DRAINAGE SURFACE WATER URBAN RUNOFF URBAN WATER URBAN WATER SUPPLY WASTEWATER WASTEWATER DISPOSAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITIES WATER DEMAND WATER INFRASTRUCTURE WATER SECTOR WATER SUPPLY WATER TABLE WATER USE WELL YIELDS WELLS People have clustered at the water's edge throughout civilization for the most fundamental of reasons: without water there is no life. Every major city in the world has a body of water or aquifer nearby, since rivers and lakes predetermined where people would gather and dwell, groundwater constitutes about 98 percent of the fresh water on our planet (excepting that captured in the polar ice caps). This makes it fundamentally important to human life and to all economic activity. Groundwater resources in and around the urban centers of the developing world are exceptionally important as a source of relatively low-cost and generally high-quality municipal and domestic water supply. At the same time, the subsurface has come to serve as the receptor for much urban and industrial wastewater and for solid waste disposal. There are increasingly widespread indications of degradation in the quality and quantity of groundwater, serious or incipient, caused by excessive exploitation and/or inadequate pollution control. The scale and degree of degradation varies significantly with the susceptibility of local aquifers to exploitation-related deterioration and their vulnerability to pollution. Management strategies need to recognize and to address the complex linkages that exist between groundwater supplies, urban land use, and effluent disposal. Groundwater tables have become the focus of keen interest in recent years, as the supplies of water underlying urban areas have dwindled and deteriorated, threatening the millions of people who live above. When conditions are right, aquifers refill regularly from infiltrating rainfall and runoff, although sometimes with a substantial time lag. But those favorable conditions are severely altered when the ground above is overbuilt. 2012-08-13T15:54:47Z 2012-08-13T15:54:47Z 2008-10 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/10/10030581/groundwater-urban-development-assessing-management-needs-formulating-policy-strategies http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11748 English Water P-Notes; No. 18 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research |
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AQUIFER AQUIFERS BOREHOLES CLEAN WATER COASTAL AREAS COMPACTION CONSTRUCTION CONTAMINANTS DOMESTIC WATER DOMESTIC WATER SUPPLY DRAINAGE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS DRINKING WATER EFFLUENT DISPOSAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT FILTRATION FRESH WATER GROUNDWATER GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT GROUNDWATER POLLUTION GROUNDWATER PROTECTION GROUNDWATER QUALITY GROUNDWATER RECHARGE GROUNDWATER RESOURCES GROUNDWATER SUPPLIES ICE INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENTS INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER IRRIGATION LAKES LAND SURFACE LAND USE LEAKAGE OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT PERCOLATE PIPE POLLUTION POLLUTION CONTROL POPULATION DENSITY PUBLIC WATER PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY PUMPING RAINFALL RIVERS RUNOFF SANITATION SEWAGE SEWERAGE SOLID WASTE SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL SURFACE DRAINAGE SURFACE WATER URBAN RUNOFF URBAN WATER URBAN WATER SUPPLY WASTEWATER WASTEWATER DISPOSAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITIES WATER DEMAND WATER INFRASTRUCTURE WATER SECTOR WATER SUPPLY WATER TABLE WATER USE WELL YIELDS WELLS |
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AQUIFER AQUIFERS BOREHOLES CLEAN WATER COASTAL AREAS COMPACTION CONSTRUCTION CONTAMINANTS DOMESTIC WATER DOMESTIC WATER SUPPLY DRAINAGE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS DRINKING WATER EFFLUENT DISPOSAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT FILTRATION FRESH WATER GROUNDWATER GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT GROUNDWATER POLLUTION GROUNDWATER PROTECTION GROUNDWATER QUALITY GROUNDWATER RECHARGE GROUNDWATER RESOURCES GROUNDWATER SUPPLIES ICE INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENTS INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER IRRIGATION LAKES LAND SURFACE LAND USE LEAKAGE OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT PERCOLATE PIPE POLLUTION POLLUTION CONTROL POPULATION DENSITY PUBLIC WATER PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY PUMPING RAINFALL RIVERS RUNOFF SANITATION SEWAGE SEWERAGE SOLID WASTE SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL SURFACE DRAINAGE SURFACE WATER URBAN RUNOFF URBAN WATER URBAN WATER SUPPLY WASTEWATER WASTEWATER DISPOSAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITIES WATER DEMAND WATER INFRASTRUCTURE WATER SECTOR WATER SUPPLY WATER TABLE WATER USE WELL YIELDS WELLS Foster, Stephen Lawrence, Adrian Morris, Brian Groundwater in Urban Development : Assessing Management Needs & Formulating Policy Strategies |
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People have clustered at the
water's edge throughout civilization for the most
fundamental of reasons: without water there is no life.
Every major city in the world has a body of water or aquifer
nearby, since rivers and lakes predetermined where people
would gather and dwell, groundwater constitutes about 98
percent of the fresh water on our planet (excepting that
captured in the polar ice caps). This makes it fundamentally
important to human life and to all economic activity.
Groundwater resources in and around the urban centers of the
developing world are exceptionally important as a source of
relatively low-cost and generally high-quality municipal and
domestic water supply. At the same time, the subsurface has
come to serve as the receptor for much urban and industrial
wastewater and for solid waste disposal. There are
increasingly widespread indications of degradation in the
quality and quantity of groundwater, serious or incipient,
caused by excessive exploitation and/or inadequate pollution
control. The scale and degree of degradation varies
significantly with the susceptibility of local aquifers to
exploitation-related deterioration and their vulnerability
to pollution. Management strategies need to recognize and to
address the complex linkages that exist between groundwater
supplies, urban land use, and effluent disposal. Groundwater
tables have become the focus of keen interest in recent
years, as the supplies of water underlying urban areas have
dwindled and deteriorated, threatening the millions of
people who live above. When conditions are right, aquifers
refill regularly from infiltrating rainfall and runoff,
although sometimes with a substantial time lag. But those
favorable conditions are severely altered when the ground
above is overbuilt. |
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Foster, Stephen Lawrence, Adrian Morris, Brian |
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Foster, Stephen Lawrence, Adrian Morris, Brian |
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Groundwater in Urban Development : Assessing Management Needs & Formulating Policy Strategies |
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Groundwater in Urban Development : Assessing Management Needs & Formulating Policy Strategies |
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Groundwater in Urban Development : Assessing Management Needs & Formulating Policy Strategies |
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Groundwater in Urban Development : Assessing Management Needs & Formulating Policy Strategies |
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Groundwater in Urban Development : Assessing Management Needs & Formulating Policy Strategies |
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groundwater in urban development : assessing management needs & formulating policy strategies |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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