Sustaining Groundwater Resources

This is a volume in the new IYPE series commemorating the UN International Year of Planet Earth. It is intended to present two key aspects:
- The current problems: lack of water resources, growing demand and socio-economic and political contexts, pollution, climate change, lack of technological or monetary resources, overdraft, falling water tables and groundwater mining.
- The current state-of-the-art in groundwater science and exploration, and ways forward for a sustainable future.
The book focuses on the following issues:
- The value of groundwater resources in our planet Earth
- Trends in Groundwater Science/Current trend in Groundwater Science
- Link between Groundwater, Poverty Alleviation and Millennium Development Goals
- Groundwater Quality, Urbanization and Industrialization: Interplay of impacts and influences
- Challenges of protection of groundwater resources
- Sustainable groundwater resource management for sustaining the society