Groundwater Learning For Everyone Everywhere
Date: Feb 16, 2022
ABSTRACT
The distribution of water resources varies at regional and global scales, with intensifying shifts mainly due to population growth, rapid urbanization, higher living standards, water pollution, and changing climates. The pressure on groundwater in particular is becoming a universal challenge, but the crisis is more serious in arid and semi-arid areas. Therefore, there is an urgent need for a proper understanding of the current status of water resources notably groundwater at the regional scale, and the potential impacts of climate change. These studies should be coupled with improved adaptation methods, governance and policy plans. This series of webinars tackles major topics in groundwater science from salt water intrusion in coastal aquifers to managed aquifer recharge, climate change impacts on groundwater and governance. These talks intend to increase groundwater visibility and calls for a collective action for its protection. This series will be launched with a talk about the importance of groundwater education.
SPEAKERS
John Cherry, Professor Emeritus of hydrogeology, Waterloo University, Canada. Founder of the Groundwater
project Professor Emeritus John A. Cherry is the co-author of “Groundwater”, the standard textbook in hydrogeology courses world-wide since its first edition in 1979. He has dedicated his professional career to groundwater, and has a profound and sustained impact internationally in the field of hydrogeology. He has facilitated a wealth of scientific knowledge and practice on groundwater and contaminant hydrogeology. Prof. Cherry has won many awards, among others the William Smith Medal by the Geological Society of England, and he is the recipient of the 2016 Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize and the 2020 Stockholm Water Prize. He is presently leading a global Groundwater
Project, “groundwater learning for everyone everywhere”, to significantly expand the dissemination of technical knowledge on water resources to new and early career professionals.
Faten Jarraya-Horriche, Associate Professor of hydrogeology, Centre for Research and Water Technologies
(LGR-CERTE), Tunisia. President of the IAH Tunisian Chapter Associate Professor Faten Jarraya-Horriche is a hydrogeologist and groundwater modeler. Her expertise is related to aquifer characterization, groundwater modeling, aquifer natural & artificial recharge, seawater intrusion, groundwater level monitoring and water
resources management.
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