1 URBAN GROUNDWATER AND THE URBAN SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGE THE CONTEXT
1.1 GLOBAL POPULATION GROWTH AND THE GROWTH OF URBAN AREAS
1.2 URBAN GROUNDWATER OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND
1.3 BOOK OUTLINE
2 THE EVOLVING ROLE OF GROUNDWATER IN URBAN AREAS AND THE HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE
2.1 EVOLVING ROLE OF GROUNDWATER IN URBAN AREAS
2.2 HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE OF URBAN GROUNDWATER
2.3 SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS IN URBAN GROUNDWATER HIGHLIGHTS
2.3.1 Urban Karst
2.3.2 Made Ground/Urban Fill
2.3.3 Deep Building Foundations
2.3.4 The Urban Water Balance
2.3.5 Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR)
2.3.6 Pollutant Source Characterization
2.3.7 Contaminant Migration
2.3.8 Disposal Methods for All Types of Domestic and Industrial Waste
2.3.9 Approaches to Monitoring
2.3.10 Aquifer Vulnerability Mapping and Methods of Groundwater Protection
2.4 SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGES URBAN HYDROGEOLOGY AND ITS UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS
2.5 EXERCISES RELATED TO SECTION 2
3 IMPACTS OF URBANIZATION ON THE URBAN WATER BALANCE – QUANTITIES AND FLOWS
3.1 AQUIFER REPLENISHMENT (RECHARGE)
3.1.1 Direct Recharge
3.1.2 Indirect Recharge
3.1.3 Additional Sources of Urban Recharge
3.2 AQUIFER OUTFLOW (DISCHARGE)
3.3 AQUIFER RESPONSE TO INEQUITIES IN THE URBAN WATER BALANCE – RISING AND FALLING WATER LEVELS
3.3.1 Cities that Use Local Groundwater for Supply
3.3.2 Cities that Do Not Use or No Longer Use Local Groundwater for Supply
3.4 THE CRITICAL ROLES OF URBAN FILL, URBAN KARST, AND DEEP FOUNDATIONS
3.5 EXERCISES RELATED TO SECTION 3
4 IMPACTS ON WATER QUALITY
4.1 POINT, LINE, AND DISTRIBUTED SOURCES OF CONTAMINATION
4.2 PRIMARY SOURCES OF URBAN GROUNDWATER POLLUTION
4.2.1 Industry and Industrial Waste
4.2.2 Underground Storage Tanks (USTs)
4.2.3 Disposal of Domestic Sewage
4.2.4 Exfiltration from Sewers and Sewage Canals
4.2.5 Septic Systems and Pit Latrines
4.2.6 Chemical Fertilizers
4.2.7 Pesticides
4.2.8 Landfills
4.2.9 Road De icing Chemicals
4.2.10 Urban Stormwater
4.2.11 Nature of Pollutants in Urban Stormwater
4.2.12 Impacts of Stormwater Runoff on Groundwater Quality
4.3 URBAN GROUNDWATER QUALITY – COMPOUNDING FACTORS
4.3.1 Monitoring Data
4.3.2 Influence of Urban Karst on Contaminant Transport
4.4 EXERCISES RELATED TO SECTION 4
5 MAJOR GLOBAL CHALLENGES
5.1 MEGACITIES AND PERI URBAN AREAS
5.1.1 The Peri-Urban Battlefields
5.1.2 A Megacity Example of the Urban Groundwater Sustainability Challenge – New Delhi, India
5.2 SEAWATER INTRUSION
5.2.1 Chennai, India – A Case Study in Salt Water Intrusion
5.3 LAND SUBSIDENCE
5.3.1 Mexico City
5.3.2 Tokyo, Japan
5.3.3 Bangkok, Thailand
5.4 FURTHER READING
5.5 EXERCISES RELATED TO SECTION 5
6 SOLUTIONS TO THE URBAN SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGE
6.1 THE CHALLENGE
6.2 MEETING THE CHALLENGE: THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS
6.2.1 Increasing Urban Water Supply
6.2.2 Reducing Water Demand
6.2.3 Using Available Water More Efficiently
6.3 GROUNDWATER RESOURCE PROTECTION
6.3.1 Standards of Practice
6.3.2 Standards of Performance
6.4 RESOURCE PROTECTION/MANAGEMENT USING MODELS SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
6.4.1 AISUWRS (Assessing and Improving Sustainability of Urban Water Resources Systems)
6.4.2 The UGROW Model
6.4.3 Urban Members of the MIKE SHE Software Family
6.5 EXERCISES RELATED TO SECTION 6
7 URBAN GROUNDWATER GOVERNANCE
7.1 EVOLVING PERSPECTIVES ON URBAN GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE
7.2 URBAN GROUNDWATER AND THE FAILURE OF IWRM/IWM/IUWM
7.3 THE GEF PROJECT – GROUNDWATER GOVERNANCE – A GLOBAL FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION (2011-2014)
7.4 A FRAMEWORK FOR WATER GOVERNANCE IN URBAN AREAS
7.5 EXERCISES RELATED TO SECTION 7
8 KEY TAKEAWAYS AND PRIORITY DATA NEEDS
8.1 THE URBAN AQUIFER FRAMEWORK
8.2 THE URBAN WATER BALANCE
8.3 POTENTIOMETRIC LEVELS
8.4 CONTAMINANT SOURCES
8.5 GROUNDWATER QUALITY
9 EXERCISES
10 REFERENCES
11 EXERCISE SOLUTIONS
12 ABOUT THE AUTHOR
