Modern Groundwater Exploration

New exploration tools and techniques for a breakthrough paradigm ofregional groundwater occurrence Fresh water is undoubtedly our most precious resource aside fromthe air we breathe, and the only commodity whose cost has steadilyrisen over time. At the same time, our understanding of theorigins, pathways, and recharge mechanisms of the earth's mostvaluable "economic" mineral-groundwater-remains in the nineteenthcentury. It is ironic that this scientific anachronism iscontributing to a global shortage of available fresh water supplieswhile oil, gas, and mineral discoveries have proliferated, vastlyincreasing the world's energy, precious metals, and industrialmineral reserves. Modern Groundwater Exploration details applications and results ofproven twenty-first- century technologies and geological conceptsadapted from the oil, gas, and mineral exploration industries forevaluating, developing, and managing previously undiscovered,massive, sustainable groundwater resources. Unprecedented in bothits scope and authority, this timely book presents: * A new groundwater paradigm, coined Megawatershed, whichaccurately and comprehensively describes the earth's naturalcomplex groundwater systems * Innovative exploration, drilling, and testing technologies thatmake major new ground-water sources more locatable andcost-effective to produce than ever before * Actual case studies in which megawatershed methods haveidentified vast quantities of new water and brought new hope topreviously arid and desperately water-short locales * Chapters by former OECD DAC chairman Alexander R. Love,geopolitical analyst Dr. Ewan Anderson, and former director of theTrinidad and Tobago Water Resources Agency Dr. Utam Maharaj on thetremendous global implications of the megawater-shed paradigm.These experts explore the many beneficial applications ofmegawater-shed development, from macroeconomics to development ofsmall island developing state (SIDS), and from criticalenvironmental issues to water conflict resolution and the potentialfor a second "green revolution" The world's need for clean, dependable water is more urgent-andaddressable-than ever before. Let Modern Groundwater Explorationintroduce you to the authors' revolutionary megawatershed paradigm,along with the latest concepts and technologies for accessing vastreservoirs of groundwater-still today's safest, cleanest, and mostplentiful water resource.