Aquifer Systems Management: Darcy's Legacy in a World of Impending Water Shortage

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Aquifer Systems Management: Darcy's Legacy in a World of Impending Water Shortage is written by Laurence Chery and published by CRC Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1482288524 (ISBN 10) and 9781482288520 (ISBN 13).

Presented at the International Association of Hydrogeologists Dijon Symposium, this book contains 43 selected papers, grouped into six topics, that address the following issues: large aquifers, resource assessment; large aquifers, water salinity and evolution; karstic and carbonate aquifer systems; geothermal aquifer systems; aquifer contamination studies; and aquifer monitoring systems and management. In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darcy's Law, the volume includes a summary of Darcy's life and his contribution to science, and five invited contributions on modern methods to estimate the hydraulic conductivity of aquifers.