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Groundwater Management - GEOS9632
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Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5
 
 
Fee Band: 5 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

This course will provide a study of the detailed occurrence and the environmental problems associated with groundwater and groundwater development in aquifer systems of importance to Australia. Environments include karst hydrogeology; Coastal sand beds; Deep sedimentary basins; Basalt plateau systems; Fractured basement rocks; Tertiary alluvial channels, and The Great Artesian Basin. Groundwater management aspects will present a review of the major challenges to effective management and use of groundwater; groundwater rights: national and international perspectives; impact of climate change on groundwater; irrigation and dryland salinity perspectives; managed aquifer recharge; groundwater dependent ecosystems, ecohydrology; and conflict potential arising from internationally shared groundwater resources.


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