Groundwater Hydrology: Engineering, Planning, and Management

Increasing demand for water, higher standards of living, depletion of resources of acceptable quality, and excessive water pollution due to urban, agricultural, and industrial expansions have caused intense environmental, social, economic, and political predicaments. More frequent and severe floods and droughts have changed the resiliency and ability of water infrastructure systems to operate and provide services to the public. These concerns and issues have also changed the way we plan and manage our surface and groundwater resources. Groundwater Hydrology: Engineering, Planning, and Management, Second Edition presents a compilation of the state-of-the-art subjects and techniques in the education and practice of groundwater and describes them in a systematic and integrated fashion useful for undergraduate and graduate students and practitioners. This new edition features updated materials, computer codes, and case studies throughout.

Features:

• Discusses groundwater hydrology, hydraulics, and basic laws of groundwater movement
• Describes environmental water quality issues related to groundwater, aquifer restoration, and remediation techniques, as well as the impacts of climate change \
• Examines the details of groundwater modeling and simulation of conceptual models
• Applies systems analysis techniques in groundwater planning and management
• Delineates the modeling and downscaling of climate change impacts on groundwater under the latest IPCC climate scenarios

Written for students as well as practicing water resource engineers, the book develops a system view of groundwater fundamentals and model-making techniques through the application of science, engineering, planning, and management principles. It discusses the classical issues in groundwater hydrology and hydraulics followed by coverage of water quality issues. It also introduces basic tools and decision-making techniques for future groundwater development activities, taking into account regional sustainability issues. The combined coverage of engineering and planning tools and techniques, as well as specific challenges for restoration and remediation of polluted aquifers sets this book apart.

Author: Mohammad Karamouz, Azadeh Ahmadi, Masih Akhbari
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 04/07/2020
Pages: 750
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.77lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.63d
ISBN: 9780367211479

About the Author

Mohammad Karamouz is a professor at the University of Tehran. He is an internationally

known water resources engineer and consultant. He is licensed as a PE

in the state of New York since 1985. Dr. Karamouz is the former dean of engineering

at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He is also a fellow of the American

Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and a diplomat of the American Academy of

Water Resources Engineers.

Dr. Karamouz received his BS in civil engineering from Shiraz University, his

MS in water resources and environmental engineering from George Washington

University, and his PhD in hydraulic and systems engineering from Purdue University.

He served as a member of the task committee on urban water cycle in UNESCO-IHP

VI and was a member of the planning committee for the development of a 5-year

plan (2008-2013) for UNESCO's International Hydrology Program (IHP VII).

Among many professional positions and achievements, he also serves on a number

of task committees for the ASCE. In his academic career spanning 35 years, he

has held positions as a tenured professor at Pratt Institute (Schools of Engineering

and Architecture in Brooklyn) and at Polytechnic University (Tehran, Iran). He was

a visiting professor in the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources at the

University of Arizona, Tucson, 2000-2003 and a research professor at NYU,

2009-2014. He was also the founder and former president of Arch Construction and

Consulting Co. Inc. in New York City.

His teaching and research interests include integrated water resources planning

and management, flood resilient cities, groundwater hydrology and pollution,

drought analysis and management, water quality modeling and water pollution,

decision support systems, climate forecasting, and the conjunctive use of surface

and groundwater. He has more than 350 research and scientific publications, books,

and book chapters to his credit, including three books: Urban Water Engineering

and Management and Hydrology & Hydroclimatology published by CRC Press in

2010, and 2012, respectively, Water Resources System Analysis published by Lewis

Publishers in 2003, and a coauthored book entitled Urban Water Cycle Processes

and Interactions published by Taylor & Francis Group in 2007.

Professor Karamouz serves internationally as a consultant to both private and

governmental agencies, such as UNESCO and the World Bank. Dr. Karamouz is

the recipient of the 2013 ASCE Service to the Profession and 2018 ASCE Hydraulic

Engineering Awards.

Azadeh Ahmadi is an associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering

at Isfahan University of Technology (IUT). She received her BS in civil engineering

and her MS in water resources engineering from IUT, and her PhD in water

resources management from the University of Tehran. She was a research associate

in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of

Bristol through a UK fellowship in 2008 and at the Eawag Institute of ETH University

in 2017. Dr. Ahmadi is an international expert and consultant in the application of

systems engineering in the planning of aquifer-river-reservoir systems. Her teaching

and research interests include groundwater modeling, water engineering and management,

systems analysis, the conjunctive use of surface and groundwater, conflict

resolution, climate change impacts studies, analysis of risk and uncertainty, and

development of decision support systems.

Masih Akhbari is the founder of Global Water Resources Inc., where he develops

interdisciplinary models and provides consultant services for water resources

management and offers expert witness services on cases with disputes over the management

of water resources systems. He is also a project engineer at Larry Walker

Associates, where he supports development of groundwater sustainability plans

under California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. Prior to these positions,

he served as a senior water resources engineer at Riverside Technology Inc., a

cutting-edge company that provides innovative IT-based solutions to develop decision

support systems for water resources.

Dr. Akhbari obtained his PhD from Colorado State University (CSU), followed

by two years of postdoctoral research at the University of California, Davis to

investigate the effects of climate change on streamflow, stream temperature, and

cold-water habitats for the California Energy Commission, and at CSU to assess

the United States perspective on the water-energy-food nexus for the Department

of State and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. His journey to apply increasingly complex

tools of analysis to thorny problems around the world has already led to the

development of interdisciplinary decision-support tools to increase the security of

water, energy, and food systems. He has employed hydrologic, engineering, systems

analysis, and social science concepts to develop frameworks and to"


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