- Paperback - Number of Pages: 520 pages
- Dimensions: 180.34 x 233.68 x 27.94mm - 1,179.33g
- Publication date: 31 Jan 2009
- Publisher: I K International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd
- Publication City/Country: New Delhi, India
- ISBN10: 8190675729
The hydrogeological aspect of groundwater science is universal and applied in nature to have a sustainable water resource development with social, economic, ecological, cultural and aesthetic background. Since 99 per cent of the world's fresh available water is groundwater; yet, the majority of financial resources are directed to surface water found in rivers and lakes. This serious imbalance requires urgent redress. This volume addresses the issue to facilitate the joint analysis of groundwater management studies and problems faced by scientist, engineers, managers and other scholars from natural and applied sciences. Significant financial support is required for basic groundwater research if sustainable development is to be a realistic goal. As a fresh water resource, groundwater has major advantages over surface water. This is the basic idea that explicitly appears in almost all paper of this book.The authors have tried to focus their task on those topics that seemed to us more urgent and relevant and have paid much attention to ques...
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