Advances in Transboundary Aquifer Assessment

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: agreement; agreements; aquifer assessment; aquifers; Arizona; assessment; bidirectionality; binational resource management; border; Canada; climate change; climate uncertainty; collaboration; conceptual model; conductivity; Conejos-Médanos/Mesilla aquifer; discharge; ethnography; geochemistry; geothermal; groundwater; groundwater and surface water interactions; groundwater depletion; groundwater management; groundwater storage; groundwater use; heat transport; Hueco Bolson; human and natural systems; hydrogeology; hydrogeomorphology; international water supplies; isotopes; Mesilla Basin; Mexico; MODFLOW; multilevel governance; power; recharge; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; resistivity; retrospective analysis; Rio Grande; risk; rivers; salinization; Santa Cruz River; Santa Cruz River Aquifer; science production; self-potential; serious games; Sonora; stakeholder cooperation; stakeholder involvement; streamflow; surface water; system dynamics modeling; temperature; thermal modeling; transboundary; transboundary aquifer; transboundary aquifer assessment; Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program; transboundary aquifers; transboundary aquifers assessment; transboundary basins; transboundary waters; trust; U.S./Mexico border; United States; United States–Canada border; United States–Mexico border; upflow; US–Mexico; vertical groundwater flow; water balance model; water governance; water quality; water resources
• ISBN: 9783036584508; 303658451X; 3036584501; 9783036584515
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-8450-8

“Advances in Transboundary Aquifer Assessment” features studies of transboundary aquifers, particularly at the border shared by Mexico and the United States, a semi-arid to arid region experiencing significant population growth and changing climate conditions. Aquifer assessment in a transboundary setting requires the cooperation of multiple jurisdictions, sometimes with different languages and cultures. The papers in this Special Issue represent a broad array of investigations of complex physical aquifer systems and related institutional settings, including identification and prioritization of needs and strategies for sustainable groundwater development and use; characterization of the physical framework of the aquifer, stressors on the aquifer system, and how those stressors influence the availability of groundwater in terms of its quantity and quality; and the incorporation of stakeholder input and prioritization directly into the process of aquifer assessment and model building.