Urban Groundwater Pollution
eBook - ePub

Urban Groundwater Pollution

IAH International Contributions to Hydrogeology 24

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Urban Groundwater Pollution

IAH International Contributions to Hydrogeology 24

About this book

More than 50% of the world's population already live in cities, and the proportion is rising extremely rapidly towards developed country levels of more than 90%.  Groundwater from wells is the major source of water supply for many of these cities,  however, groundwater is polluted by the cities that overlie it and sewerage systems are oft

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. International Contributions to Hydrogeology
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. Preface
  10. Contributors
  11. Chapter 1: Values And Functions of Groundwater Under Cities
  12. Chapter 2: Characteristics of urban groundwater
  13. Chapter 3: Sources, types, characteristics and investigation of urban groundwater pollutants
  14. Chapter 4: Mature industrial cities
  15. Chapter 5: Rapidly-urbanising arid-zone cities
  16. Chapter 6: Urban areas of sub-Saharan Africa: weathered crystalline aquifer systems
  17. Chapter 7: Cities overlying karst and karst-like aquifers0000
  18. Chapter 8: Groundwater management in urban alluvial aquifer systems: case studies from three continents: Agadir, Lima and Los Angeles
  19. Chapter 9: Shallow porous aquifers in Mediterranean climates
  20. References
  21. IAH International Contributions to Hydrogeology