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The continuing presence of a range of pollutants in a number of Europe's freshwaters threatens aquatic ecosystems and raises concerns for public health. Current reporting under the EU Water Framework Directive shows that a substantial proportion of Europe's freshwaters are at risk of not...
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groundwater, and (2) the predictive abilities of one of the most commonly used agri-environmental indicators, the Nitrogen Balance …. We find that the proportion of cropland exerts a positive effect on the nitrate content in groundwater. Additionally … nitrate pollution of groundwater possibly due to increased evapotranspiration. Equally, higher average precipitation dilutes …
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One part of the literature on the economics of groundwater management is concerned with mathematic models that … represent the inefficiencies of a private extraction of groundwater resources. Their main aim is to isolate some economic … fore that, despite the fact that the literature about the economics of groundwater is full of dynamic models, their …
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tremendous pressure on the region’s scarce groundwater resources. GCC countries are all using hundreds to thousands times more …
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metrics, namely “groundwater source awareness” and “groundwater contamination awareness” (p > 0.001). Future “environmental … custodians” are not well informed of the human health risks associated with poor groundwater management or of potential … intergenerational nor institutional knowledge transfer pertaining to groundwater protection or drinking water quality is prevalent. A …
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<Para ID="Par1">Groundwater economic models have refined optimal extraction rules while lagging behind in the study of … optimal spatial policies. This paper develops a theoretical model to estimate welfare gains from optimal groundwater … management when the choice variable set is expanded to include well location decisions as well as optimal groundwater extraction …
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, groundwater storage through subsurface dams could be promising, especially considering the monsoon rainfall and seasonal river …
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