Sustainable Management of Aquifers in Semi-Arid Tropics

Dear Colleagues,

Semi-arid Tropics areas suffer from increasing surface water scarcity due to population growth and economic activity development. Therefore, groundwater has become an increasingly exploited resource for agriculture irrigation and drinking water supply. A consequence of this is an unbalanced situation between natural recharge and water abstraction, inducing water table depletion. Climate change will impact these tropical areas in various ways, increasing average temperature and changing rainfall patterns. Cost-effective groundwater management solutions are necessary in order to reduce the adverse impacts of these long term trends.

Contributions are expected on the following topics:

• Evaluation of natural recharge in semi-arid areas
• Characterization of groundwater flow in fractured aquifers
• Estimation of groundwater reserves in heterogeneous aquifers
• Managed aquifer recharge cost-benefit analysis
• Climate change impact assessment on groundwater
• Groundwater abstraction regulation
• Groundwater numerical modeling
  

Dr. Jean Christophe Maréchal
Guest Editor

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