H060
Groundwater Flow for Water Purification

Session ID#: 157224

Session Description:
Rapid urbanisation and increasing climate extremes have led to dramatic freshwater supply-demand deficits across the globe, stimulating an urgent quest for new, sustainable, and annually reliable water sources. Over short spatiotemporal scales, limestones and chalk have proven remarkably effective at attenuating excess viruses and pathogens, heavy metals, and nutrients from used or grey water. However, there are significant gaps in our understanding of aqueous contaminant transport, retardation, and removal at such large scales, as well as the role of fractures. Investigations of the physical processes that govern aqueous-phase transport through porous and fractured rocks, together with those relating to physiochemical filtration, could therefore yield potentially new and important supplies of freshwater at local and regional scales, enhancing resilience against increasingly unpredictable supply. We encourage submissions detailing proof-of-concept numerical or analytical models, laboratory tests, or field-based case studies relating to all aspects of water purification and aqueous-phase flow through rock.
Index Terms:

1829 Groundwater hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1832 Groundwater transport [HYDROLOGY]
1884 Water supply [HYDROLOGY]
4329 Sustainable development [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Primary Convener:  Jonathan D. Paul, Royal Holloway University of London, Department of Earth Sciences, Egham, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Puja Shakya, Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal and Nathalie Grassineau, Royal Holloway University of London, Department of Earth Sciences, EGHAM Surrey TW20 0EX, U.K, United Kingdom
Student/Early Career Convener:  Jonathan M. Rowe, Royal Holloway University of London, Earth Sciences, Egham, TW20, United Kingdom
 
Watershed Management for Water Security in the Himalayan Region (1072319)
Kripa Shrestha, Nabin Bhattarai, Madhav Dhakal and Neera Shrestha Pradhan, ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal
 
Understanding the Impact of Hydro-Geochemical Parameters on Fluoride Transport in Groundwater of a Semi-Arid Region (1107656)
Ajit Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India and Basant Yadav, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Water Resources Development & Management, Roorkee, India
 
Pathways and implications of mobilization of naturally occurring contaminants during managed aquifer recharge (1124645)
Sarah Fakhreddine, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States; Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, United States, Henning Prommer, University of Western Australia, School of Earth and Environment, Perth, WA, Australia, Scott E Fendorf, Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, Steven M. Gorelick, Stanford Univ, Stanford, United States, Bridget R Scanlon, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States and Jean-Philippe Nicot, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States
 
A Mathematical Model of Groundwater Flow through a Layered Soil System in a Hyporheic Zone (1140327)
Manisha Das, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, India and Ratan Sarmah, IIT ROPAR, CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, Ropar, India
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