Groundwater Information for Integrated Water Resources Management
Because of its wide availability, good quality and cost-effective for the development, groundwater has been an important source of water supply in the world. Groundwater accounts for more than half of the total water supply and provides important source of irrigation water during dry period in North China. Aquifer storage and enhanced recharge will become an effective method in coping with water scarcity and climate variability. Although it is widely accepted that integrated water resources management should integrate surface water and groundwater as a single resource in the planning and development, it is not commonly applied in practice. One of technical reasons is the lack of reliable groundwater information for decision making by water managers. This paper describes the requirements of groundwater information for integrated water resources management and methods to collect this information by a regional groundwater monitoring network. The Urumqi River Basin case study is presented as an example.
groundwater information requirements monitoring Urumqi River Basin
Zhou Yangxiao
UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education Westvest 7, P.O. Box 3015, 2601 DA Delft, The Netherlands
国际会议
山东东营
英文
62-70
2007-10-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）