From Groundwater Flow System Understanding toward Sustainable Water Management

Dear Colleagues,

Good governance and management of groundwater for meeting multiple presents and future demands on the resource, and to account for potential impacts of climate change, requires scientific understanding and knowledge of groundwater flow systems from the local or catchment scale to regional basin scales. This includes understanding the natural physical and chemical processes associated with groundwater flow systems, their consequences, interaction with other components of the hydrological cycle, as well as understanding the impact of human activities on groundwater systems.

This Special Issue brings together manuscripts from different fields of groundwater studies with the common aspect of understanding groundwater flow systems for improved water management, including:

• hydraulic behavior/hydraulic processes
• hydrogeochemical processes and chemical transport processes
• recharge, discharge processes
• groundwater-surface water interactions
• groundwater flow systems and groundwater-dependent ecosystems
• coupled groundwater flow and heat transport processes
• groundwater age and residence/transit time
• groundwater flow systems in different environments
• geogenic and anthropogenic origin of chemical composition
• impacts of climate change on groundwater flow system (recharge and discharge, groundwater-surface water interaction, chemical composition)
• groundwater flow systems in relation to economic resources such as geothermal energy and hydrothermal mineral deposits

All papers should have a groundwater flow system component and it is suggested to mention a connection to current or future water management issues. Original research articles, theoretical, field, experimental, numerical and analytical studies, and comprehensive review papers focusing on defining groundwater flow and preventing, controlling, and mitigating negative environmental impacts (quality and quantity) including those in developing countries, are welcome.

The Special Issue is initiated by the Regional Groundwater Flow Commission of IAH and the ENeRAG H2020 project and is connected to the International Symposium on Geofluids held on July 2021.

Prof. Dr. Judit Mádl-Szőnyi
Prof. Dr. Marco Masetti
Dr. Hanneke Verweij
Dr. Ádám Tóth
Dr. Brigitta Czauner
Prof. Dr. John Molson
Guest Editors

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