6.4 Derivation of unit hydrographs of various durations
6.5 Computation of the rate and volume of stream depletion by boreholes and wells
7.1 Interpretation of a constant discharge pumping test and recovery test
7.2 Dye‐tracer test in the Chepstow Block Carboniferous limestone aquifer, south‐west England
7.3 Single borehole dilution tracer test conducted at a Chalk aquifer site
7.4 Convergent radial flow tracer test conducted at a sand and gravel aquifer site
7.5 Groundwater depletion in North‐West India
7.6 Groundwater modelling of the Monturaqui‐Negrillar‐Tilopozo Aquifer, Chile
8.1 The ‘hard‐water story’
8.2 Macrodispersion caused by layered heterogeneity
8.3 Controlled field experiments to investigate transport of organic solutes
8.4 Groundwater contamination by heavy metals in Nassau County, New York
8.5 Mine water pollution
8.6 Nitrate contamination of the Jersey bedrock aquifer
8.7 Saltwater intrusion in the Llobregat Delta aquifer, Spain
9.1 Pump‐and‐treat system design using capture zone type curves
9.2 Jet fuel clean‐up at Heathrow International Airport
9.3 In situ permeable reactive barrier for remediation of chlorinated solvents
9.4 Monitored natural attenuation of a crude oil spill, Bemidji, Minnesota
9.5 The Drastrup Project, north Jutland, Denmark
9.6 Arsenic pollution of groundwater in southern Bangladesh
10.1 Great Man‐made River Project
10.2 The North London Artificial Recharge Scheme
10.3 Riverbank filtration at the Düsseldorf waterworks, River Rhine, Germany
10.4 Impact of groundwater abstraction on Redgrave and Lopham Fen, East Anglia, England
10.5 The Florida Everglades: a region under environmental stress
10.6 History of climate change and groundwater impacts on human civilization in the Fertile Crescent
10.7 Assessment of drought severity
10.8 Climate change impacts on European groundwater resources
Preface to the third edition
The scope of this book remains the same in presenting the study of hydrogeology and the significance of groundwater in the terrestrial aquatic environment. This new edition reflects developments in hydrogeology since publication of the second edition in 2014 and aims to capture contemporary topics linking groundwater resources to global challenges such as climate change, energy resources and groundwater depletion embedded in global crop production and trade. Advances in the availability of digital data and techniques for modelling global‐scale datasets have revealed the current state of groundwater resources worldwide, only further emphasizing the societal importance of groundwater as a natural resource. This third edition continues to be aimed at both students and practitioners in hydrogeology and related subjects. As in the previous two editions, this edition includes a set of exercises in Appendix 10, together with some new numerical problems, to assist students in gaining practice in problem solving in hydrogeology.
The overall structure and order of the book chapters remain largely the same, with Chapter 1 having undergone revision to present new insights into the distribution of groundwater in the Earth’s upper continental crust, groundwater‐related tipping points, the role of groundwater as an agent of global material and elemental fluxes, and the influence of humans on the water cycle. As an illustration of global groundwater challenges, a new box is included on groundwater quality and depletion in the Indo‐Gangetic Basin.
Chapters 2 and 3 cover basic principles of physical hydrogeology and the response of groundwater systems to geological processes. There is further presentation of the problems of land subsidence from groundwater over‐abstraction as observed using remote sensing methods in the Tehran Plain, Iran, and a new section on the types of sinkholes and triggers for their collapse.
Chapters 4 and 5 have been extended with new material on the relationships between geology, hydrogeological environment and groundwater chemistry and how these factors have influenced the location of British spa towns and the history of malting and brewing in Europe. The application of the stable isotopes of nitrogen and sulphur in groundwater investigations is presented in the context of regional hydrochemical processes. A new box illustrates the application of multiple environmental tracers in revealing groundwater
