This open access book explores the interactions between water and
earthquakes, including recent concerns about induced seismicity. It
further highlights that a better understanding of the response of the
water system to disturbances such as earthquakes is needed to safeguard
water resources, to shield underground waste repositories, and to
mitigate groundwater contamination. Although the effects of earthquakes
on streams and groundwater have been reported for thousands of years,
this field has only blossomed into an active area of research in the
last twenty years after quantitative and continuous documentation of
field data became available. This volume gathers the important advances
that have been made in the field over the past decade, which to date
have been scattered in the form of research articles in various
scientific journals.