Bisson / Lehr Modern Groundwater Exploration

Discovering New Water Resources in Consolidated Rocks Using Innovative Hydrogeologic Concepts, Exploration, Drilling, Aquifer Testing and Management Methods
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-471-66082-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten, E-Book

New exploration tools and techniques for a breakthrough paradigm ofregional groundwater occurrence
Fresh water is undoubtedly our most precious resource aside fromthe air we breathe, and the only commodity whose cost has steadilyrisen over time. At the same time, our understanding of theorigins, pathways, and recharge mechanisms of the earth's mostvaluable "economic" mineral-groundwater-remains in the nineteenthcentury. It is ironic that this scientific anachronism iscontributing to a global shortage of available fresh water supplieswhile oil, gas, and mineral discoveries have proliferated, vastlyincreasing the world's energy, precious metals, and industrialmineral reserves.
Modern Groundwater Exploration details applications and results ofproven twenty-first- century technologies and geological conceptsadapted from the oil, gas, and mineral exploration industries forevaluating, developing, and managing previously undiscovered,massive, sustainable groundwater resources. Unprecedented in bothits scope and authority, this timely book presents:
* A new groundwater paradigm, coined Megawatershed, whichaccurately and comprehensively describes the earth's naturalcomplex groundwater systems
* Innovative exploration, drilling, and testing technologies thatmake major new ground-water sources more locatable andcost-effective to produce than ever before
* Actual case studies in which megawatershed methods haveidentified vast quantities of new water and brought new hope topreviously arid and desperately water-short locales
* Chapters by former OECD DAC chairman Alexander R. Love,geopolitical analyst Dr. Ewan Anderson, and former director of theTrinidad and Tobago Water Resources Agency Dr. Utam Maharaj on thetremendous global implications of the megawater-shed paradigm.These experts explore the many beneficial applications ofmegawater-shed development, from macroeconomics to development ofsmall island developing state (SIDS), and from criticalenvironmental issues to water conflict resolution and the potentialfor a second "green revolution"
The world's need for clean, dependable water is more urgent-andaddressable-than ever before. Let Modern Groundwater Explorationintroduce you to the authors' revolutionary megawatershed paradigm,along with the latest concepts and technologies for accessing vastreservoirs of groundwater-still today's safest, cleanest, and mostplentiful water resource.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bisson, Robert A.

Lehr, Jay H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword.
Preface.
Chapeter 1. Introduction.
Chapter 2. Megawatersheds - A New Paradigm.
Chapter 3. Case Study - Northwest Somalia 1984-86.
Chapter 4. Case Studies - Sudan.
Chapter 5. Case Study - Tobago, West Indies 1999-2000.
Chapter 6. Case Study - Trinidad, West Indies 2000-2002.
Chapter 7. Global Implications of a Hydrogeological ParadigmShift.

Über Autor(innen)

Robert A. Bisson is CEO of Earthwater TechnologyInternational. He founded and managed water development companieson four continents and has explored the world for oil, gas,minerals, and water for over thirty-five years. He first discoveredand documented megawatersheds in Africa's rift region in the1980s, and he designed and managed the projects summarized as casestudies in this book. Robert Bisson is widely published and is aFellow of the Explorers Club.
Jay H. Lehr, PhD, is president of Environmental EducationEnterprises, Inc. He is the founder of The Association of GroundWater Scientists and Engineers, former editor of the GroundwaterJournal, and author of fifteen books and over 500 articles. Hispioneering work in groundwater hydrology in the 1970s and'80s led to the first major innovations in aquifer modeling,water well siting, and drilling technologies since the nineteenthcentury.