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An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartlandThe Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers around the world is a defining planetary crisis of our times. Running Out offers a uniquely personal account of aquifer depletion and the deeper layers through which it gains meaning and force.Anthropologist Lucas Bessire journeyed back to western Kansas, where five generations of his family lived as irrigation farmers and ranchers, to try to make sense of this vital resource and its loss. His search for water across the drying High Plains brings the reader face to face with the stark realities of industrial agriculture, eroding democratic norms, and surreal interpretations of a looming disaster. Yet the destination is far from predictable, as the book seeks to move beyond the words and genres through which destruction is often known. Instead, this journey into the morass of eradication offers a series of unexpected discoveries about what it means to inherit the troubled legacies of the past and how we can take responsibility for a more inclusive, sustainable future.An urgent and unsettling meditation on environmental change, Running Out is a revelatory account of family, complicity, loss, and what it means to find your way back home.

Groundwater --- Water-supply --- Social aspects --- Great Plains. --- Heartland. --- Julene Bair. --- Ogallala Blue. --- Sarah Smarsh. --- The Ogallala Road. --- William Ashworth. --- belonging. --- conservative America. --- conservative values. --- environment. --- environmental crisis. --- ethnography. --- exclusion. --- family histories. --- farm families. --- global warming. --- groundwater depletion. --- memoir. --- memory. --- partisanship. --- polarization. --- resource depletion. --- rural life. --- sustainability. --- the best memoirs. --- water crisis. --- water wars. --- High Plains Aquifer. --- High Plains (U.S.) --- Social conditions.

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Coastal regions around the world have become increasingly crowded, intensively developed, and severely exploited. Hundreds of millions of people living in these low-lying areas are subject to short-term coastal hazards such as cyclones, hurricanes, and destruction due to El Niño, and are also exposed to the long-term threat of global sea-level rise. These massive concentrations of people expose often-fragile coastal environments to the runoff and pollution from municipal, industrial, and agricultural sources as well as the impacts of resource exploitation and a wide range of other human impacts. Can environmental impacts be reduced or mitigated and can coastal regions adapt to natural hazards? Coasts in Crisis is a comprehensive assessment of the impacts that the human population is having on the coastal zone globally and the diverse ways in which coastal hazards impact human settlement and development. Gary Griggs provides a concise overview of the individual hazards, risks, and issues threatening the coastal zone.

Coasts. --- Coastal zone management. --- Natural disasters. --- Climatic changes. --- Hazardous geographic environments. --- Disasters --- Human ecology --- Environments, Hazardous geographic --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Global environmental change --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Natural calamities --- Ecosystem management --- Natural resources --- Regional planning --- Coastal engineering --- Coast ecosystem management --- Coastal ecosystem management --- Coastal management --- Coastal resource management --- Coastal resources management --- Coastal zone ecosystem management --- Coasts --- CRM (Coastal resource management) --- Zone management, Coastal --- Landforms --- Seashore --- Coastal landforms --- Coastal zones --- Coastlines --- Environmental aspects --- Management --- climate change. --- costal zone. --- diverse preservation. --- ecologist. --- el nino. --- environmental impact. --- fragile ecosystem. --- global warming. --- long term threat. --- melting ice caps. --- ocean floor. --- sea levels. --- sea rising. --- tsunami. --- water crisis.

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The present Special Issue brings together recent research findings from renowned scientists in the field of water treatment and assembled contributions on advanced technologies applied to the treatment of wastewater and drinking water, with emphasis on novel membrane treatment technologies. 12 research contributions have highlighted various processes and technologies, which can achieve effective treatment and purification of wastewater and of drinking water, aiming (occasionally) for water reuse. The main topics which are analyzed are the use of novel type membranes in bioreactors, the use of modified membranes, for example using vacuum membrane distillation, the fouling of membranes, the problem of arsenic, antimony and chromium contamination in groundwaters and its removal and the use of novel technologies for more efficient ozonation.

hollow fiber membranes --- modeling --- small sized powdered ferric hydroxide --- ceramic membranes --- multiphase --- antimony treatment --- winery effluents --- fouling --- municipal wastewater sludge --- particle size distribution --- ultrafiltration --- coagulation --- HA–BSA mixtures --- Sb(III) --- water treatment --- chromate --- separation --- backwash duration --- water crisis --- adsorption --- dewatering --- hexavalent chromium --- arsenic adsorption --- polydimethylsiloxane --- vacuum membrane distillation --- co-treatment --- desalination --- arsenic --- mass transfer --- produced water treatment --- membranes --- process control --- membrane resistance --- granular ferric hydroxide --- ozonation --- Membrane Bioreactor --- hollow fibre --- crossflow membrane filtration --- microfiltration --- membrane filtration --- xDLVO theory --- Fe-based coagulants --- wastewater treatment --- cake resistance --- Sb(V) --- peroxone --- temperature --- drinking water --- trickling biofilter --- natural organic matter (NOM) --- antimony --- second cheese whey --- sodium alginate --- optical sensors --- bioethanol recovery --- membrane fouling --- interaction energy --- TMP --- adsorption kinetics --- water matrix --- multivariate statistics --- polluted waters --- natural organic matter --- operation --- solution conditions --- biofilm membrane bioreactor

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Many people live in rural areas in tropical regions. Rural development is not merely a contribution to the growth of individual countries. It can be a way to reduce poverty and to increase access to water, health care, and education. Sustainable rural development can also help stop deforestation and reduce livestock, which generate most of the greenhouse gas emissions. However, efforts to achieve a sustainable rural development are often thwarted by floods, drought, heat waves, and hurricanes, which local communities are not very prepared to tackle. Agricultural practices and local planning are still not very risk-informed. These deficiencies are particularly acute in tropical regions, where many Least Developed Countries are located and where there is, however, great potential for rural development. This Special Issue contains 22 studies on best practices for risk awareness; on local risk reduction; on several cases of soil depletion, water pollution, and sustainable access to safe water; and on agronomy, earth sciences, ecology, economy, environmental engineering, geomatics, materials science, and spatial and regional planning in 12 tropical countries.

Research & information: general --- climate change --- contingency plan --- flood risk --- local development plan --- risk management --- sustainable rural development --- agricultural drought --- heavy rains --- hydrological drought --- meteorological drought --- risk assessment --- Sahel --- early warning --- hydrology --- local communities --- Niger river basin --- rural development --- disaster risk reduction --- official development assistance --- public participation --- risk tracking --- Sendai framework --- sustainable development --- dataset validation --- precipitation --- Kenya --- local climate --- ASALs --- Quantile Mapping --- climate services --- local drought risk reduction --- smallholder farmers --- agrometeorological forecast --- Niger --- natural resources --- Mauritania --- resource management --- regional planning --- participatory approach --- EO data --- water resources --- sustainable management --- local development --- water for food security --- building consolidation --- extreme precipitations --- flood exposure --- satellite remote sensing --- settlement dynamics --- vulnerability --- agriculture --- Nitrate runoff --- real-time monitoring --- water quality --- rural area --- scant data --- nitrate contamination --- water --- flood --- Sinai Peninsula --- flash flood --- CORDEX --- water harvesting --- indigenous farmers --- multinational corporations --- systems thinking --- Nigeria --- sub-Saharan Africa --- drought --- rainfall regime --- soil biogeochemistry --- natural disasters --- flooding --- flood vulnerability --- inequality --- risk premium --- expected annual damages --- certainty equivalent annual damages --- equity weight expected annual damages --- equity weight certainty equivalent annual damage --- soil erosion --- Great Rift Valley Lakes --- ASAL --- desertification --- groundwater resources --- fluoride --- main Ethiopian Rift Valley --- developing countries --- welfare --- panel probit model --- adoption --- propensity score matching --- water crisis in Africa --- water collection and retention systems --- sand dam --- migration --- risk communication --- volcanic hazards --- social risk perception --- resilience --- demonstrator --- scenario --- multi-risk analysis --- climate-smart agriculture --- socio-ecological systems --- extension --- Belize --- milpa --- food security --- sustainability --- photovoltaic energy --- desalination system --- SIDS --- CO2 emissions --- LCOW --- LEOW --- n/a

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This book is a hard copy of the editorial and all the papers in a Special Issue of the peer-reviewed open access journal ‘Water’ on the theme ‘Managed Aquifer Recharge for Water Resilience’. Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) is the purposeful recharge of water to aquifers for subsequent recovery or environmental benefit. MAR is increasingly used to make water supplies resilient to drought, climate change and deteriorating water quality, and to protect ecosystems from declining groundwater levels. Global MAR has grown exponentially to 10 cu.km/year and will increase ten-fold within a few decades. Well informed hydrogeologists, engineers and water quality scientists are needed to ensure that this investment is effective in meeting increasingly pressing needs. This compilation contains lessons from many examples of existing projects, including several national and continental summaries. It also addresses the elements essential for identifying and advancing projects such as mapping aquifer suitability and opportunities, policy matters, operational issues, and some innovations in MAR methods and monitoring. This collection exemplifies the state of progress in the science and practice of MAR and is intended to be useful, at least to water managers, water utilities, agricultural water users and urban planners, to facilitate water resilience through new MAR projects.

Research & information: general --- ASR --- recycled water --- well clogging --- geochemical analysis --- filtration --- biofouling --- risk management --- Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) --- aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) --- strategic storage --- Northern Australia --- Managed Aquifer Recharge --- MAR --- climate change --- water management --- IWRM --- adaptation measures --- indicators --- Spain --- groundwater --- mapping --- Sweden --- decision-support --- riverbank filtration --- pharmaceuticals in groundwater --- removal of pharmaceuticals --- managed aquifer recharge --- web GIS --- web tools --- multi-criteria decision analysis --- suitability mapping --- anthropic forcing --- meteorological forcing --- lake bank filtration --- mixing ratios --- environmental tracer --- time-varying mixing model --- sensitivity analysis --- Ulaanbaatar --- MATLAB --- FEFLOW --- artificial recharging scenarios --- Mexico --- legal --- regulatory --- framework --- LAN (Law of the Nation’s Waters) --- reclaimed water --- arid --- semi-arid --- environment protection --- health protection --- safety --- risk --- ecosystems --- contaminants --- recycling --- drinking water --- regulation --- governance --- SAT --- tillage --- infiltration pond --- infiltration rate --- soil compaction --- types of MAR for irrigation --- Yellow River Irrigation District --- adaptability zoning evaluation --- online flow-cytometry --- enzymatic activity --- ultrafiltration --- ATP --- managed aquifer recharge (MAR) --- induced bank filtration (IBF) --- geographic information science (GISc) --- geographic information systems (GIS) --- drinking water supply --- guidelines --- climate adaptation --- stream temperature --- streamflow --- Henry’s Fork --- fisheries --- Snake River --- Idaho --- water rights --- infiltration basin --- cost function --- suitability map --- GIS-MCDA --- water supply security model --- risk assessment --- decision support --- dynamic --- probabilistic --- integrated water resource management --- organic amendments --- contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) --- pathogens --- new water challenges --- Underground Transfer of Floods for Irrigation --- droughts --- floods --- groundwater depletion --- groundwater recharge --- water quality --- water level monitoring --- recharge performance --- rainwater harvesting --- India --- water security --- urban water management --- semiarid --- Social Technology --- developing countries --- Africa --- water banking --- water crisis