Manage groundwater quality and quantity
Water utilities need to manage groundwater quality and quantity to ensure water supply for the population without depleting aquifers
Need characteristics
- Water security
- Water Utilities (WU)
- Water supply
- Maintenance of groundwater levels
- Overexploitation of groundwater
- Salinisation affecting wells and boreholes
- Groundwater allocation
- Techniques to reduce salinization of groundwater
- Dryer
- Sea-level rise
- Wetter
- Wetter & Dryer
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