Outlines the concept and principles of water harvesting for
groundwater management for an international audience, and looks at the
positives and negatives surrounding water harvesting technologies
This book is the first to fully outline the concept and principles of
water harvesting for groundwater management for a global audience. It
offers guidance to academics, students and researchers on effective
water harvesting approaches for groundwater recharge, and educates them
on the risks associated with managed aquifer recharge, as well as the
causes of success or failure of particular management strategies, and
demand management strategies and tools. The book is helpful to water
managers, administrators, and professionals, to make decisions to
allocate resources; developing innovative cost-effective measures and
approaches to achieve demand-supply balance. The book provides readers
with an overview of the historical evolution of water harvesting for
groundwater recharge. It looks at the benefits and gaps in knowledge,
their implementation and funding strategies, and public participation.
It also assesses the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
(SWOT) of water harvesting technologies.
Water Harvesting for Groundwater Management: Issues, Perspectives,
Scope and Challenges offers chapters covering: issues on water
harvesting and water security; mega-trends that impact water security;
groundwater occurrence, availability, and recharge-ability; phases of
water harvesting systems; SWOT analysis of water harvesting systems;
case studies and short examples of implementing water harvesting; scope
of water harvesting for GWM strategies; guidelines to make water
harvesting helpful and meaningful for GWM; and more.
- Summarizes the theories and applications of water harvesting for
groundwater management for a world audience
- Offers guidance on effective water harvesting approaches for
groundwater recharge, managed aquifer recharge, and successful water
management strategies
- Evaluates the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT)
of water harvesting technologies
- Part of the Challenges in Water Management series
Water Harvesting for Groundwater Management: Issues, Perspectives,
Scope and Challenges is an excellent resource for water management
professionals working with water harvesting technologies, and will be of
great interest to water managers, administrators, professionals,
academics and researchers working in water management.
