Groundwater overexploitation in the North China Plain: A path to sustainability, 1st ed. 2022 Springer Water Series
Auteurs : Kinzelbach Wolfgang, Wang Haijing, Li Yu, Wang Lu, Li Ning
Over-pumping of aquifers is a worldwide problem, mainly caused by agricultural water use. Among its consequences are the falling dry of streams and wetlands, soil subsidence, die-off of phreatophytic vegetation, saline water intrusion, increased pumping cost and loss of storage needed for drought relief.
Stopping or reversing the trend requires management interventions. The North China Plain serves as an example. A management system is set up for a typical county. It contains three components: monitoring, decision support based on modelling, and implementation in the field. Besides all monitoring data, the decision support module contains an irrigation calculator, a box model, and a distributed groundwater model to project the outcomes of different water allocation scenarios. In view of grain security, a solution combines an adaptation of the cropping system with imports of surface water from the South.The Open Access book does not only describe the problem and the path to its solution. It also gives access to nine manuals concerning methods used. They include computer programs and the game Save the Water. The Chinese experience should be of considerable interest to other regions in the world which suffer from over-pumping of aquifers.
Prof. Dr. Kinzelbach studied Physics in Mainz and Munich Universities in Germany and Environmental Engineering at Stanford, California. He earned his Ph. D. degree in Environmental Engineering in 1978 from Karlsruhe University in Germany. After professorships in Kassel and Heidelberg, he was appointed chair of hydromechanics and groundwater at ETH Zurich. His research focused on flow and transport processes in the aquatic environment with applications in remediation, waste isolation and sustainable management. He contributed to the development of groundwater modelling, including real time modelling, and the use of remote sensing data in geohydrology. He is known world-wide for his work in the field of sustainable groundwater management. He is recipient of the Henry Darcy medal of the EGU and fellow of the AGU. Since his retirement in 2014, he has been heading the Sino-Swiss groundwater management project. He is still active as a consultant to government on nuclear waste isolation and river rehabilitation.
Presents holistic description of the over-pumping problem in the North China Plain
Exhibits possibility of trying out all methods described in appendices supplied on the web
Offers introduction to elements of a groundwater management system
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
Date de parution : 11-2021
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Mots-clés :
Groundwater management; Groundwater depletion; Groundwater modelling; Monitoring of groundwater levels; Pumping tests for monitoring of pumping rates of wells; Subsidized land fallowing; Groundwater game app; Smart metering of pumping wells; Smart metering of electricity consumption; Surface water diversion; Decision support system; Open Access
