Science–Policy Integration for Common Approaches Linked to Groundwater Management in Europe
Groundwater Management and Planning: How Can Economics Help?
US Drinking Water Regulation: The Ground Water Rule
The Pilot River Basin Network: Examples of Groundwater-related Activities
The Harmoni-CA Initiative
Linking Public Participation to Adaptive Management
Groundwater Quality Background Levels
Groundwater Age and Quality
Characterisation of Groundwater Contamination and Natural Attenuation Potential at Multiple Scales
Improved Risk Assessment of Contaminant Spreading in Fractured Underground Reservoirs
INCORE: Integrated Concept for Groundwater Remediation
Groundwater Monitoring in the Policy Context
Screening Methods for Groundwater Monitoring
Quality Assurance for Groundwater Monitoring
Integrated Management Principles for Groundwater in the WFD Context
System Approach to Environmentally Acceptable Farming
Methodology for the Establishment of Groundwater Environmental Quality Standards
Pesticides in European Groundwaters: Biogeochemical Processes, Contamination Status and Results from a Case Study
Conceptual Models in River Basin Management
SNOWMAN: An Alternative for Transnational Research Funding
Towards a Science–Policy Interface (WISE-RTD) in Support of Groundwater Management
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About this book
Until recently, focus on groundwater mainly concerned its use as drinking water and as an important resource for industry (e.g. cooling waters) and agriculture (irrigation). It has, however, become increasingly obvious that groundwater should not only be viewed as a drinking water reservoir, but that it should also be protected for its environmental value. In this respect, groundwater represents an important link of the hydrological cycle through the maintenance of wetlands and river flows, acting as a buffer through dry periods. Hence, deterioration of groundwater quality may directly affect other related aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The groundwater legislative framework under the EU Water Framework Directive and the newly adopted Groundwater Directive establishes criteria linked to environmental objectives which have to be met by 2015 following successive operational steps including characterisation, risk assessment (analysis of pressures and impacts), monitoring and design of programmes of measures. These milestones require that sound technical and scientific information be made accessible to water managers, which is so far still not sufficiently streamlined. In this context, this book describes the groundwater legislative milestones and presents series of research and development activities that aim to directly support them. It has, therefore, the ambition to become a vehicle liaising policy requirements and available scientific knowledge in this area.
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Philippe QUEVAUVILLER is a member of the Water & Marine Unit of the EC Environment Directorate-General where he is responsible for the development and implementation of a new Groundwater Directive which will complement the existing water policy framework. He has worked as a researcher in marine geochemistry for over 20 years during which he has published more than 200 papers in the international literature and several books linked to environmental quality measurements. He is also a part-time professor at the K.U. Leuven teaching "water quality and treatment".