Managed Aquifer Recharge for Water Resilience

• Other Authors: Dillon, Peter (Editor), Fernández Escalante, Enrique (Editor), Megdal, Sharon B. (Editor), Massmann, Gudrun (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Research & information: general; ASR; recycled water; well clogging; geochemical analysis; filtration; biofouling; risk management; Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR); aquifer storage and recovery (ASR); strategic storage; Northern Australia; Managed Aquifer Recharge; MAR; climate change; water management; IWRM; adaptation measures; indicators; Spain; groundwater; mapping; Sweden; decision-support; riverbank filtration; pharmaceuticals in groundwater; removal of pharmaceuticals; managed aquifer recharge; web GIS; web tools; multi-criteria decision analysis; suitability mapping; anthropic forcing; meteorological forcing; lake bank filtration; mixing ratios; environmental tracer; time-varying mixing model; sensitivity analysis; Ulaanbaatar; MATLAB; FEFLOW; artificial recharging scenarios; Mexico; legal; regulatory; framework; LAN (Law of the Nation's Waters); reclaimed water; arid; semi-arid; environment protection; health protection; safety; risk; ecosystems; contaminants; recycling; drinking water; regulation; governance; SAT; tillage; infiltration pond; infiltration rate; soil compaction; types of MAR for irrigation; Yellow River Irrigation District; adaptability zoning evaluation; online flow-cytometry; enzymatic activity; ultrafiltration; ATP; managed aquifer recharge (MAR); induced bank filtration (IBF); geographic information science (GISc); geographic information systems (GIS); drinking water supply; guidelines; climate adaptation; stream temperature; streamflow; Henry's Fork; fisheries; Snake River; Idaho; water rights; infiltration basin; cost function; suitability map; GIS-MCDA; water supply security model; risk assessment; decision support; dynamic; probabilistic; integrated water resource management; organic amendments; contaminants of emerging concern (CECs); pathogens; new water challenges; Underground Transfer of Floods for Irrigation; droughts; floods; groundwater depletion; groundwater recharge; water quality; water level monitoring; recharge performance; rainwater harvesting; India; water security; urban water management; semiarid; Social Technology; developing countries; Africa; water banking; water crisis
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This book is a hard copy of the editorial and all the papers in a Special Issue of the peer-reviewed open access journal 'Water' on the theme 'Managed Aquifer Recharge for Water Resilience'. Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) is the purposeful recharge of water to aquifers for subsequent recovery or environmental benefit. MAR is increasingly used to make water supplies resilient to drought, climate change and deteriorating water quality, and to protect ecosystems from declining groundwater levels. Global MAR has grown exponentially to 10 cu.km/year and will increase ten-fold within a few decades. Well informed hydrogeologists, engineers and water quality scientists are needed to ensure that this investment is effective in meeting increasingly pressing needs. This compilation contains lessons from many examples of existing projects, including several national and continental summaries. It also addresses the elements essential for identifying and advancing projects such as mapping aquifer suitability and opportunities, policy matters, operational issues, and some innovations in MAR methods and monitoring. This collection exemplifies the state of progress in the science and practice of MAR and is intended to be useful, at least to water managers, water utilities, agricultural water users and urban planners, to facilitate water resilience through new MAR projects.