Title: Necessity and Objectives for a Computer Based Groundwater Quality Management in the GDR
Abstract: Groundwater is the major source for drinking water supply in the GDR. About 70% of the total demand for drinking water is covered by this source. By 1990, only 30–40% of the resources used were natural ones. Hence, it follows that the usable share of groundwater resources needs to be artificially expanded to meet future water demand. Besides using bank-filtered water, the decisive increase will be achieved by artificially recharging aquifers. Even the use of surface mine drainage water must be taken into account as an alternative for resolving the demand supply conflict. Because of the extraction of ever deeper lying coal seams, an ever-increasing quantity of water needs to be drained off. To preserve groundwater as the main source of drinking water supply, groundwater protection is an urgent task in view of the currently increasing risk of pollution. It necessitates the integration of quality aspects into the existing quantity management concept, which means that a comprehensive groundwater quality management needs to be implemented.
Publication Year: 1981
Publication Date: 1981-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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