The role of the Spanish Committee of the International Association of Hydrogeologists in the management and protection of Spain's groundwater resources |
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Authors: | Emilio Custodio M-Ramón Llamas Fermín Villarroya |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Ground Engineering, Politechnical University of Catalonia, E-08034 Barcelona, Spain Fax: +34-3-401-6504, ES;(2) Department of Geodynamics, Complutense University, E-28040 Madrid, Spain, ES |
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Abstract: | Spain is a relatively large European country (ca. 500,000 km2) with extensive semiarid areas in which there exists a large number of good aquifers. In some areas, these aquifers are intensively
developed and are the most important sources of fresh water. Nevertheless, groundwater development and protection has rarely
been duly considered by the Spanish Water Administration, despite the pressure to remedy this situation by various groups
of experts, some of them members of the Water Administration. The Spanish Committee of the International Association of Hydrogeologists
(IAH) has been very active during the last decade in promoting activities to spread groundwater science, technology, and management
in Spain and outside, mostly in Latin America, and in trying to orient water policy toward issues of groundwater. These activities
include mainly the organization of technical and scientific meetings on current topics such as groundwater in the new Water
Act, overexploitation, groundwater in water-resources planning, groundwater pollution, natural-recharge estimation and others.
The impact of these activities on the recent water policy of Spain seems significant, and the experience gained may be applicable
to other countries.
Received, February 1997 · Revised, July 1997 · Accepted, July 1997 |
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Keywords: | Spain organizations general hydrogeology groundwater management legislation |
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