| Description |
1 online resource (309 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Contents |
Historical perspective -- Megawatersheds, a new paradigm / Alexander Raymond Love -- Case study, Northwest Somalia 1984-86 -- Sudan case studies and model -- Case study, Tobago, West Indies 1999-2000 / Utam Maharaj -- Case study, Trinidad, West Indies 2000-2002 -- Global implications of a hydrogeological paradigm shift / Ewan W. Anderson |
| Summary |
Annotation New exploration tools and techniques for a breakthrough paradigm of regional groundwater occurrence. Fresh water is undoubtedly our most precious resource aside from the air we breathe, and the only commodity whose cost has steadily risen over time. At the same time, our understanding of the origins, pathways, and recharge mechanisms of the earth's most valuable " economic" mineral, groundwater, remains in the nineteenth century. It is ironic that this scientific anachronism is contributing to a global shortage of available fresh water supplies while oil, gas, and mineral discoveries have proliferated, vastly increasing the world's energy, precious metals, and industrial mineral reserves. Modern Groundwater Exploration details applications and results of proven twenty-first- century technologies and geological concepts adapted from the oil, gas, and mineral exploration industries for evaluating, developing, and managing previously undiscovered, massive, sustainable groundwater resources. Unprecedented in both its scope and authority, this timely book presents: A new groundwater paradigm, coined Megawatershed, which accurately and comprehensively describes the earth's natural complex groundwater systems; Innovative exploration, drilling, and testing technologies that make major new ground-water sources more locatable and cost-effective to produce than ever before; Actual case studies in which megawatershed methods have identified vast quantities of new water and brought new hope to previously arid and desperately water-short locales; Chapters by former OECD DAC chairman Alexander R. Love, geopolitical analystDr. Ewan Anderson, and former director of the Trinidad and Tobago Water Resources Agency Dr. Utam Maharaj on the tremendous global implications of the megawater-shed paradigm |
| Analysis |
ER Internet Book Full text |
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Environmental Engineering |
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FACsci |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-299) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Groundwater -- Research -- Methodology.
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Prospecting -- Geophysical methods.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lehr, Jay H., 1936-
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| LC no. |
2003023862 |
| ISBN |
0471064602 |
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0471660825 |
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1119318319 (electronic bk.) |
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1601192894 (electronic bk.) |
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6610556768 |
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9780471064602 |
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9780471660828 |
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9781119318316 (electronic bk.) |
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9781601192899 (electronic bk.) |
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9786610556762 |
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