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Non-renewable groundwater use and groundwater depletion: a review
Population growth, economic development, and dietary changes have drastically increased the demand for food and water. The resulting expansion of irrigated agriculture into semi-arid areas with limited precipitation and surface water has greatly ...
M. Bierkens, Y. Wada
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Study on the Sustainable use of Regional Groundwater Resources [PDF]
Water resources have become a major factor limiting the sustainable development of China’s economy and society, and at the same time China’s water resources are developed and utilized in a relatively sloppy manner, China is facing multiple pressures of ...
Wang Meiyu, Dai Changlei, Gao Yu
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This paper describes the contents of the new Hydrogeological Map of the City of Rome (1:50,000 scale). The map extends to the entire municipality (1285 km2) and is based on both the most recent scientific studies on the groundwater field and new survey activities carried out in order to fill the data gaps in several areas of the examined territory. The
F. La Vigna+28 more
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One of the most important steps in the numerical simulation of a hydrogeological system is the precise definition of initial and boundary conditions. The better these are characterized, the more efficient the calculation and the more accurate are the ...
Thomas Fichtner+4 more
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Sources and Consequences of Groundwater Contamination
Groundwater contamination is a global problem that has a significant impact on human health and ecological services. Studies reported in this special issue focus on contaminants in groundwater of geogenic and anthropogenic origin distributed over a wide ...
Peiyue Li+3 more
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A new conceptual framework for the transformation of groundwater dissolved organic matter
Groundwater comprises 95% of the liquid fresh water on Earth and contains a diverse mix of dissolved organic matter (DOM) molecules which play a significant role in the global carbon cycle.
Liza K. McDonough+11 more
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Digital rock twins are widely used to obtain hydraulic properties of porous media by simulating pore-scale fluid flow. Multifractal characteristics of pore geometry and flow velocity distribution have been discovered with two-dimensional (2D) images and ...
Han Tang+4 more
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Groundwater Quality and Groundwater Vulnerability Assessment [PDF]
Groundwater is a valuable and finite resource covering only 30% of the freshwater (3% of the total volume of water) on Earth [...]
Konstantinos Voudouris+1 more
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Groundwater is the second largest store of freshwater in the world. The sustainability of the ecosystem is largely dependent on groundwater availability, and groundwater has already been under tremendous pressure to fulfill human needs owing to ...
S. Swain+4 more
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Sources of metasilicate in mineral water of Jingyu County, northeastern China [PDF]
The source of metasilicate in mineral water of Jingyu County. located in Changbai Mountains of northeastern China, was analysed through two groups of water-rock interaction experiments.
Xiao Changlai+4 more
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