H21B:
Understanding and Predicting Groundwater Sustainability Under High Human Pressure

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Session ID#: 6215

Session Description:
Anthropogenic activities have been impacting the dynamics and quality of groundwater resources for decades. Examples are found in agricultural areas, where overexploitation is combined with increased recharge from irrigation return flow; urban areas, where intense withdrawals are combined with surface sealing and leaking from sewage systems, or in a variety of industrial contexts. These stresses impact drastically water balance and water quality. Generally, our considerations on groundwater cycle are based on an over-simplified interpretation of hydraulic heads or geochemical data. While understanding and predicting the evolution of groundwater flow pattern becomes a crucial challenge for a sustainable management of water resources, we do have to discuss how non-steady state impacts our interpretation of groundwater resources response to environmental forcing. This session encourages contributions on original case studies, innovative techniques and new proxies that provide qualitative and quantitative constraints on the water balance compounds (recharge, discharge, mixings) in highly anthropized aquifers.
OSPA Liaison:  Paul Baudron, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
Chairs:  Paul Baudron, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, Florent Barbecot, GEOTOP-UQAM, Departement of Earth and atmospheric sciences, Montréal, Canada and Jose-Luis Garcia-Aróstegui, Instituto Geologico y Minero de España, Murcia, Spain
Primary Convener:  Paul Baudron, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Civil, geological and mining engineering, Montréal, QC, Canada
Conveners:  Florent Barbecot, GEOTOP-UQAM, Departement of Earth and atmospheric sciences, Montréal, Canada and Jose-Luis Garcia-Aróstegui, Instituto Geologico y Minero de España, Murcia, Spain
Index Terms:

1803 Anthropogenic effects [HYDROLOGY]
1831 Groundwater quality [HYDROLOGY]
1834 Human impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1836 Hydrological cycles and budgets [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

H21B-01
Groundwater Development In Semi-Arid South India: Trends and Status (34085)
Rajendra Prasad Sishodia, Reserach Scholar, IDC ICRISAT, Patancheru Hyderabad, India and Sanjay Shukla, University of Florida, Immokalee, United States
H21B-03
Effective management of brackish irrigation water for a network of farms along a river by considering soil-water-plant feedback mechanisms: a conceptual framework development (33198)
Syed Hamid Hussain Shah Sr, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Irrigation and Drainage, Faisalabad, Pakistan and S. H. H. Shah, A. Ben-Gal, Shah, S. S. H., A. Munir, H. P. Weikard, S .E. A. T. M. van der Zee
H21B-04
Submarine Groundwater Discharge of Artificial Releases? Using a Hydrodynamic Model to Assess the Origin of 222Rn Activities in a Coastal Lagoon Connected to a Highly Anthropized Aquifer (Mar Menor, SE Spain). (36650)
Francisco López Castejón1, Paul Baudron2, Javier Gilabert3, Sabine Cockenpot4, Adriano Mayer5, Olivier Radakovitch4, Jose-Luis Garcia-Aróstegui6, Christian Leduc7 and Christelle Claude4, (1)Universidad Politécnica Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain, (2)Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, (3)Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Cartagena, Spain, (4)CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence Cedex, France, (5)University of Avignon, UMR 1114, EMMAH, Avignon, France, (6)Insituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid, Spain, (7)Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France
H21B-05
Spatially distributed recharge modelling with commonly available data - Application to the Centre-du-Québec region of southern Quebec (Canada) (34983)
Diogo Barnetche, Marie Larocque, Guillaume Meyzonnat and Sylvain Gagné, GEOTOP-UQAM, Departement of Earth and atmospheric sciences, Montréal, Canada
H21B-06
Application of the Pressure-State-Response Framework for Measuring Groundwater Sustainability. Case Study: Campo de Cartagena (SE Spain) (35444)
Javier Senent-Aparicio1, Jose-Luis Garcia-Aróstegui2, Julio Pérez-Sánchez3, Alicia María Bielsa-Artero1 and Juan Carlos Domingo Pinillos1, (1)Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (UCAM), Civil Engineering, Murcia, Spain, (2)Instituto Geologico y Minero de España, Murcia, Spain, (3)University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Civil Engineering, Las Palmas, Spain
H21B-07
Simulating the Effects of Groundwater Dynamics on Aquifer Vulnerability (34931)
Guillaume Meyzonnat and Marie Larocque, GEOTOP-UQAM, Sciences de la Terre et de l'atmosphère, Montréal, QC, Canada
H21B-08
The Impacts of Change in Rainfall and Groundwater Withdrawal on Groundwater Resources of Raya Valley, Northern Ethiopia. (34957)
Merhawi GebreEgziabher GebreMichael, Addis Ababa University, SCHOOL OF EARTH SCIENCES, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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