Intensive Use of Groundwater:

<p>This text is written by a number of authors from different countries and disciplines affording the reader an invaluable and unbiased perspective on the subject of intensive groundwater development. Based on information gathered from the experience of many countries over the last decades the text aims to present a clear discussion on the conventional hydrogeological aspects of intensive groundwater use along with the ecological legal institutional economic and social challenges. Divided into two main sections the first group of authors put forward the positive and negative aspects of intensive groundwater use whilst a second group provide an overview of the situation specific countries face as a consequence of this phenomenon. Fully revised and up-to-date <em>Groundwater Intensive Use</em> makes a significant number of discoveries in a subject area that is topical in today's climate.</p>