EESC07H3 Lecture Notes - Water Table, Water Resource Management, Water Cycle

• School: UTSC
• Department: Environmental Science
• Course: EESC07H3
• Professor: Ken Howard

Document Summary

Groundwater is just 1 component of the hydrological cycle. Key to sustainable resource management is understand & quantifying all components of the hydrological cycle. Iwem : integrated water resource management: qua(cid:374)tif(cid:455) ho(cid:449) (cid:373)u(cid:272)h (cid:449)ate(cid:396) is a(cid:448)aila(cid:271)le to u, th(cid:396)u k(cid:374)o(cid:449)i(cid:374)g da(cid:396)(cid:272)(cid:455)"s la(cid:449), (cid:272)(cid:396)oss- sectional areas etc. Groundwater represent the largest & most important source of fresh,potable water. 4l out of 150l of water r fresh water & 3/4 l of water is frozen,1/150l is fresh, accessible water, 10ml is lakes, 1/10 of 1ml r rivers in the world, everything else left is groundwater. Groundwater environments r highly variable, generally include: large deep groundwater basins, geologically complex areas with locally important aquifers. Has value but not replenished trans boundary aquifers thousands of the(cid:373) i(cid:374)te(cid:396)(cid:374)atio(cid:374)all(cid:455), (cid:271)/(cid:272) do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:449)he(cid:396)e they belong to. All rocks r capable of storing water, but only most permeable rocks r able to supply water to a well.