List of Contributors

**Jan Adamowski:** Department of Bioresource Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Macdonald Campus of McGill University, 21111 Lakeshore Road, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC H9X 3V9, Canada

**Subbaiah Amirthalingam:** Centre for Environmental Management and Decision Support (CEMDS), Vienna A-1180, Austria

**Gary L. Amy:** Water Desalination and Reuse Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia

**Muhammad Arshad:** National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training and The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management Centre (iCAM), building 48a, Linnaeus Way, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia

**Norbert Brunner:** Centre for Environmental Management and Decision Support (CEMDS), Vienna A-1180, Austria

**Brooke M. Bushman:** The Nature Conservancy, 1510 E. Fort Lowell Road, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA

**Michael Chew:** School of Science & Health, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith NSW 2751, Australia

**Pennan Chinnasamy:** International Water Management Institute, PO Box 2075, Colombo, Sri Lanka

**Jeffery D. Connor:** CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Private Mail Bag 2, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia

**Yogita Dashora:** Department of Soil & Water Conservation Engineering, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, Raj. 313001, India

**Seema Dave:** School of Science & Health, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith NSW 2751, Australia

**Peter Dillon:** Flinders University, University of Adelaide and visitor to CSIRO Land and Water Flagship, PMB2, Glen Osmond SA 5064, Australia

**Lakshmanan Elango:** Department of Geology, Anna University, Chennai 600025, India **Enrique Fernández Escalante:** Tragsa I+D+i, Maldonado 58, Madrid 28006, Spain

**Lei Gao:** CSIRO Land and Water, Private Mail Bag 2, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia

**Noreddine Ghaffour:** Water Desalination and Reuse Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia

**Rodrigo Calero Gil:** Tragsa I+D+i, Maldonado 58, Madrid 28006, Spain

**Tom Gleeson:** Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Faculty of Engineering, McGill University, 3450 University Street, Montreal H3A 0C3, Canada

**Harsharn Grewal:** School of Science & Health, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith NSW 2751, Australia

**Joseph H.A. Guillaume:** National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training and The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management Centre (iCAM), building 48a, Linnaeus Way, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia; Water & Development Research Group (WDRG), Aalto University, Tietotie 1E, Espoo 02150, Finland

**Bruce Gungle:** Arizona Water Science Center—U.S. Geological Survey, 520 N Park Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA

**Hakimuddin:** Vidya Bhawan Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Udaipur, Raj. 313001, India

**Yogesh Jadeja:** Arid Communities and Technologies, Bhuj, Guj. 370001, India

**Rai Kookana:** CSIRO Land and Water Flagship, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia

**Laurel J. Lacher:** Lacher Hydrological Consulting, 821 S. Meyer Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85701, USA

**TorOve Leiknes:** Water Desalination and Reuse Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia

**Basant Maheshwari:** School of Science & Health, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith NSW 2751, Australia

**Robert G. Maliva:** Schlumberger Water Services, 1567 Hayley Lane, Suite 202, Fort Myers, FL 33907, USA

**Sharon B. Megdal:** Water Resources Research Center, University of Arizona, 350 North Campbell Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA; Central Arizona Project, P.O. Box 43020 Phoenix, AZ 85080, USA

**Thomas M. Missimer:** Whitaker College of Engineering, Florida Gulf Coast University, 10501 FGCU Boulevard South, Fort Myers, FL 33965-6565, USA

**Hemant Mittal:** Department of Soil & Water Conservation Engineering, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, Raj. 313001, India

**Amir Niazi:** Department of Geoscience, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr. NW, Calgary T2N 1N4, Canada

**Sachin Oza:** Development Support Centre, Ahmedabad, Guj. 380058, India

**Roger Packham:** School of Science & Health, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith NSW 2751, Australia

**Sundaram Parimalarenganayaki:** Department of Geology, Anna University, Chennai 600025, India

**Ashish Patel:** Development Support Centre, Ahmedabad, Guj. 380058, India

**Shiv O. Prasher:** Department of Bioresource Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Macdonald Campus of McGill University, 21111 Lakeshore Road, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC H9X 3V9, Canada

**Chinniyampalayam E. Pratap:** Centre for Environmental Management and Decision Support (CEMDS), Vienna A-1180, Austria

**Sanmugam Prathapar:** International Water Management Institute, PO Box 2075, Colombo, Sri Lanka

**Ramesh Purohit:** Department of Soil & Water Conservation Engineering, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, Raj. 313001, India

**Ayman Rabi:** Palestinian Hydrology Group, Emil Habibi Street-AlMasyoun, Ramallah, Palestine

**Mohammad Azizur Rahman:** Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Environmental Physics in Civil Engineering, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover D-30167, Germany; Department of Applied Geology, Geoscience Center, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Goldschmidtstr. 3, Göttingen D-37077, Germany

**Pratap Rao:** Department of Soil & Water Conservation Engineering, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, Raj. 313001, India

**Holly E. Richter:** The Nature Conservancy, 1510 E. Fort Lowell Road, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA

**Andrew Ross:** National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training and The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management Centre (iCAM), building 48a, Linnaeus Way, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia; Groundwater Section, Division of Water Sciences, UNESCO, 1 Rue Miollis, Paris, Cedex 75732, France

**Bernd Rusteberg:** Department of Applied Geology, Geoscience Center, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Goldschmidtstr. 3, Göttingen D-37077, Germany

**Muath Abu Saada:** Palestinian Hydrology Group, Emil Habibi Street-AlMasyoun, Ramallah, Palestine; Al Farez Center-South of the PA Compound, P.O Box 4288, Albireh, Ramallah, Palestine

**Ponnusamy Sakthivel:** Centre for Environmental Management and Decision Support (CEMDS), Vienna A-1180, Austria

**María Á San Miguel Fraile:** Tragsatec, Julián Camarillo 6b, Madrid 28037, Spain

**Martin Sauter:** Department of Applied Geology, Geoscience Center, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Goldschmidtstr. 3, Göttingen D-37077, Germany

**Kenneth Seasholes:** Central Arizona Project, P.O. Box 43020 Phoenix, AZ 85080, USA

**Fernando Sánchez Serrano:** Tragsatec, Julián Camarillo 6b, Madrid 28037, Spain

**Tushaar Shah:** International Water Management Institute, PO Box 2075, Colombo, Sri Lanka **Pradeep Singh:** Department of Soil & Water Conservation Engineering, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, Raj. 313001, India

**Prahlad Soni:** Vidya Bhawan Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Udaipur, Raj. 313001, India

**Markus Starkl:** Centre for Environmental Management and Decision Support (CEMDS), Vienna A-1180, Austria

**Brijen Thaker:** Arid Communities and Technologies, Bhuj, Guj. 370001, India

**Munuswamy Thirunavukkarasu:** SPT Consultancy Services, Chennai 600011, India

**Dale S. Turner:** The Nature Conservancy, 1510 E. Fort Lowell Road, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA

**Mohammad Salah Uddin:** Department of Applied Geology, Geoscience Center, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Goldschmidtstr. 3, Göttingen D-37077, Germany; Irrigation Management Division, Institute of Water Modelling, New DOHS, Mohakhali Dhaka-1206, Bangladesh

**Maria Varua:** School of Science & Health, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith NSW 2751, Australia

**John Ward:** CSIRO Land and Water Flagship, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia

**Kamal Yadav:** Department of Soil & Water Conservation Engineering, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, Raj. 313001, India

## Preface

Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) and water banking are of increasing importance to water resources management. MAR can be used to buffer against drought and changing or variable climate, as well as provide water to meet growth in demand, by making use of intermittent excess surface water supplies and recycled waters. Institutions that perform the necessary permitting and monitoring are required so that a region's groundwater quantity and/or quality management can be furthered through MAR. While several jurisdictions have frameworks in place, many do not. Lack of enabling policy and governance frameworks limits the realization of MAR benefits.

Along with hydrologic and geologic considerations, economic and policy analyses are essential to a complete analysis of MAR and water banking opportunities. Yet, the peerreviewed literature tends to focus more on the operational and physical aspects of MAR programs. We determined that the journal Water provides an excellent opportunity to publish a collection of papers on the policy, economic, and decision-making aspects of MAR and water banking. Along with the journal's announcement of an open call for papers, invitations were issued to several presenters at the Eighth International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge (ISMAR8), which was held in Beijing, China in October 2013.

We are pleased to present these 12 papers, all of which were subject to peer review by at least two reviewers. They show the range of economic and policy considerations relevant to the development and implementation of MAR programs. Several papers show novel techniques that can be used to select MAR locations. The importance and economic viability of MAR to semi-arid to arid environments is evident from the use of MAR in both developed and developing regions. Papers demonstrate how MAR can be utilized to meet municipal and agricultural water demands in water-scarce regions, as well as assist in the reuse of wastewater. Some studies explain how stakeholder engagement, ranging from consideration of alternatives to monitoring, and multi-disciplinary analyses to support decision-making are of high value to development and implementation of MAR programs.

There is growing recognition of the importance of groundwater and aquifer health to meeting future water needs, as well as the crucial role for strong institutional and governance frameworks for water resources management. The approaches discussed in this collection of papers, along with the complementary and necessary hydrologic and geologic analyses, provide important inputs to water resource managers. We thank the authors for contributing to increased understanding of MAR as a component of sound water management.

> Sharon B. Megdal and Peter Dillon *Guest Editors*
