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Water Resources Management
Published in: Water Resources Management 12/2015

01-09-2015

Sustainable Groundwater Management in the Arid Southwestern US: Coachella Valley, California

Authors: Brian F. Thomas, James S. Famiglietti

Published in: Water Resources Management | Issue 12/2015

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Abstract

Sustainable groundwater management requires approaches to assess the influence of climate and management actions on the evolution of groundwater systems. Traditional approaches that apply continuity to assess groundwater sustainability fail to capture the spatial variability of aquifer responses. To address this gap, our study evaluates groundwater elevation data from the Coachella Valley, California, within a groundwater sustainability framework given the adoption of integrative management strategies in the valley. Our study details an innovative approach employing traditional statistical methods to improve understanding of aquifer responses. In this analysis, we evaluate trends at individual groundwater observation wells and regional groundwater behaviors using field significance. Regional elevation trends identified no significant trends during periods of intense groundwater replenishment, active since 1973, despite spatial variability in individual well trends. Our results illustrate the spatially limited effects of groundwater replenishment occur against a setting of long-term groundwater depletion, raising concerns over the definition of sustainable groundwater management in aquifer systems employing integrative management strategies.
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Metadata
Title
Sustainable Groundwater Management in the Arid Southwestern US: Coachella Valley, California
Authors
Brian F. Thomas
James S. Famiglietti
Publication date
01-09-2015
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Water Resources Management / Issue 12/2015
Print ISSN: 0920-4741
Electronic ISSN: 1573-1650
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-015-1067-y

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