Summary Editorial: Impacts of global change on groundwater in Western Mediterranean countries

María Luisa Calvache; Carlos Duque; David Pulido-Velazquez

doi:10.1007/s12665-020-09261-3

Summary Editorial: Impacts of global change on groundwater in Western Mediterranean countries

María Luisa Calvache^*, Carlos Duque, David Pulido-Velazquez

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Department of Geoscience - Geology, C.F. Møllers Allé

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The western Mediterranean is especially sensitive to global change impacts. Climate change, population growth, urbanization and expansion of infrastructures, and land use and land cover changes are affecting the quality and quantity of groundwater resources primarily in this region characterized by frequent and severe meteorological and hydrological droughts, and a high population density. Climatic forecasts anticipate long-term regional precipitation decreases and temperature raises. The direct consequence of this over groundwater is the diminishing in springs discharge and the progressive fall of the piezometric levels. However, the anthropogenic action has also strong impacts over water systems as land use modifications and the change in recharge conditions or the increase of water demand and the variation on water abstracted from aquifers and the consequent water quality changes associated. A variety of tools and monitoring systems emerge as essential needs for society to confront the frequent current problems in the western Mediterranean and the future water challenges that are just starting to be foreseen.

Original language	English
Article number	531
Journal	Environmental Earth Sciences
Volume	79
Issue	24
Number of pages	5
ISSN	1866-6280
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-020-09261-3
Publication status	Published - Dec 2020

Keywords

Deterioration
Global change
Groundwater
Recharge
Western Mediterranean

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Summary Editorial: Impacts of global change on groundwater in Western Mediterranean countries. / Calvache, María Luisa; Duque, Carlos; Pulido-Velazquez, David.
In: Environmental Earth Sciences, Vol. 79, No. 24, 531, 12.2020.

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