Groundwater Resources and Sustainable Water Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 45
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water resource management in urban areas is extremely complex as a consequence of several factors that can change the natural hydrogeological balance and compromise groundwater resource quality. The inversion of the river–water table relationship, caused both by natural phenomena (e.g., by the scarcity of resources) and by withdrawals from wells near rivers, can be the cause of a qualitative decay of groundwater resources. This can have serious consequences on water supply. Changes in drainage relationships, especially where man-made activities have an impact on the ground surface between overlapping aquifers (e.g., agricultural practices involving the use of plant protection products, pesticides, etc.) can generate the contamination of deeper and naturally more protected aquifers. Especially for alluvial aquifers, withdrawal from wells can involve a subsidence phenomenon related to serious damage to structures and buildings. These aspects are certainly amplified by climate change, which represents a potential threat to even the best management of the quality and quantity of groundwater resources, especially in urban areas. The aim of this Special Issue is to gather together high-quality papers highlighting the existing relationships between natural and/or anthropogenic causes, changes in groundwater resources quality and quantity, and subsidence phenomena in urban areas. Contributions may involve case studies, literature reviews, applied analyses with groundwater resource flow and transport models, and innovative groundwater withdrawal management models developed from a forecasting perspective.
Dr. Libera Esposito
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- urban water management
- urban river basin
- climate change
- water resources
- water quality
- water quantity
- urban hydrogeology
- hydrogeological modelling
- water pollution
- subsidence
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