Getting to know the different perspectives of groundwater sustainability

فصلنامه آب و توسعه پایدار

Article 17, Volume 11, Issue 4 - Serial Number 34, March 2025, Pages 184-207   

Document Type: Analytical note

Authors

Hadi Karimi miandoab¹; Seyedeh Mohaddeseh Taheri^{* 2}; Hashem Derakhshan³

¹boss of the Department of Monitoring and Engineering of Water Resources, General Department of Environmental Improvement of Mashhad Municipality

²Ferdowsi University of mashhad

³PhD.student of water science and engineering and researcher at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

Abstract

Considering the close relationship between hydrological, ecological and socio-economic systems with groundwater reliability, in order to implement policies, laws and management guidelines of reliability concepts in order to reduce the deterioration of water resources and ecosystem, it is necessary to explain integrated management in water resources management. If there are no collaborative processes, it will definitely face a serious problem. As a result, a wider gap is created between water activists, scientists and society to define and achieve groundwater reliability. Various aspects of the concept of groundwater reliability are discussed and this concept is explained based on hydrological principles for more collaborative and integrated approaches in order to achieve water security. This research focuses on identifying diverse social values related to groundwater reliability, methodology of aquifer efficiency factors and governance factors. In addition, a systematic review of the main components of scientific assessment affecting sustainable groundwater policy, including multi-process modeling, uncertainty analysis, and participation, is reviewed. The effective implementation of groundwater policies requires an explanation of integrated management and a collaborative process between surface water systems, groundwater, ecosystems and human activities, including uncertainty analysis and adaptive management and local knowledge and social preferences and regional conditions.

Keywords

Groundwater reliability; ecosystem services; uncertainty; participation; aquifer

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