Groundwater intensive exploitation and mining in Gran Canaria and Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain: Hydrogeological, environmental, economic and social aspects

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 557-558, Issue , 2016, Pages 425-437

  Custodio, Emilio ^a   Cabrera, María del Carmen ^b   Poncela, Roberto ^c   Puga, Luis Olavo ^d   Skupien, Elzbieta ^c   del Villar, Alberto ^e  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^c Hydrogeological Consulting   (Spain)

^d Hydrogeological Consulting   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gran Canaria; Groundwater mining; Intensive aquifer exploitation; Reserve depletion; Tenerife; Water governance; Water socio economics

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ECONOMICS; GROUNDWATER; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; WATER RESOURCES;

AQUIFER EXPLOITATION; GRAN CANARIA; GROUNDWATER MINING; RESERVE DEPLETION; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; TENERIFE; WATER GOVERNANCE;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AQUIFER; EXPLOITATION; GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; MINING; RESOURCE DEPLETION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; GROUNDWATER GOVERNANCE; GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT; GROUNDWATER MINING; HYDROGEOLOGICAL ASPECT; INTENSIVE GROUNDWATER EXPLOITATION; LEGAL ASPECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASHORE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPAIN; SURFACE AREA; URBAN WASTE WATER RECLAMATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER AND WATER RELATED PHENOMENA; WATER FLOW; WATER PLANNING; WATER QUALITY; WATER TRADING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); MINING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

CANARY ISLANDS; GRAN CANARIA; LAS PALMAS; SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE [(PRV) CANARY ISLANDS]; SPAIN; TENERIFE;

GROUND WATER; WELL WATER;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; ISLANDS; MINING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPAIN; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY; WATER WELLS;

EID: 84962502196     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.038     Document Type: Article

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