H24E:
Understanding and Predicting Groundwater Sustainability Under High Human Pressure Posters

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Session ID#: 6921

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:  Florent Barbecot, GEOTOP-UQAM, Departement of Earth and atmospheric sciences, Montréal, 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, Université du Québec à Montréal, Earth and atmospherical sciences, Montréal, QC, 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:

 
H24E-0248
Development and application of a decision support system for sustainable groundwater management: A case study of Rechna Doab basin, Pakistan. (35036)
Azhar Inam Baig1, Johannes Halbe1, Jan F Adamowski2 and Shiv O Prasher1, (1)McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (2)McGill University, Department of Bioresource Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada
 
H24E-0249
Hydrogeochemistry and isotopy of the groundwater intensely used in eastern Haouz and the area of Tassaout Upstream, Morocco. (36688)
Samia Rochdane1, Abdennabi Elmandour1 and Paul Baudron2, (1)Cadi Ayyad university, geology, marrakech, Morocco, (2)Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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