[The Well] Important Questions for Water Wells and for Groundwater
Kevin McCray
August 13, 2009
NGWA invites you to ponder and then answer the two questions listed here. You can elect to answer both, or just one (or, of course, neither), and you can be as detailed, or as brief, as you wish. We look forward to your insights.
1) What is the one most important research question in groundwater science that needs answering in the next decade?
2) What is the one most important research question in water well system technology that needs answering in the next decade?
NGWA will gather, summarize, and share the responses from this informal inquiry among subscribers to The Well in the next 30 days.
Thanks for weighing in.
kevin mccray, cae | executive director |
national ground water association |
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Todd Jarvis
1) What is the one most important research question in groundwater
science that needs answering in the next decade?
What areas in the US (and the world) that are underlain by fractured
rocks have experienced lost storage due to compression of fractures
due to pumping? The petroleum industry has recognized this problem for
decades. The groundwater industry appears to be in denial over this
issue.
2) What is the one most important research question in water well
system technology that needs answering in the next decade?
How much water does a domestic well really use in gallons per day.
This sounds ridiculous, but the estimates used by policy makers or
provided by government agencies versus what is legally permitted from
various entities varies nearly a couple of orders of magnitude. And
policy makers want to know this number for considering (or
reconsidering) *exempt* well issues.
Thank you for your consideration.
Todd
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Todd Jarvis
Associate Director
Institute for Water and Watersheds
Oregon State University
210 Strand Agriculture Hall
Corvallis, Oregon USA 97331
541-737-4032
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Torres, Oscar A Civ USAF AFMC 75 CEG/CEVOR
maintenance cost, and easily available mechanical and electronic parts
anywhere in the United States in water well system technology in the
next decade? The system would be useless if it's not efficient and there
are no available parts to replace the worn out equipment.
Oscar Torres
75 CEG/CEVOR
7274 Wardleigh Road
Hill AFB UT 84056
801-775-6893
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1) What is the one most important research question in groundwater science that needs answering in the next decade?
How to do research when we do not have basic data! We cannot build models or do future planning for appropriate ground water resource management if we don't first invest in collecting and maintaining basic hydrogeologic data - I believe routine hydrologic monitoring is necessary, establishing data-management standards is imperative (is that reported in GPM, GPD, acre feet? - how often do you get a database where basic data management standards are not met?), and making that data available to the stakeholders should be our goal. We have amazing tools in GIS and other database applications and should be applying those tools to our science.
Fate and transport of trace pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the subsurface environment - treated municipal waste water is being used to recharge ground water - how to best construct the engineered recharge systems to remove trace contaminants to meet drinking water standards.
Domestic (private) well water use - - how much water do they pump? How to manage aquifer systems when a large percentage of extraction is not measured or monitored?
2) What is the one most important research question in water well system technology that needs answering in the next decade?
For small, rural ground water based water supply systems - - how to economically treat the water to drinking water standards - -
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Steve Walthour
See Below.
Thanks,
Steven D. Walthour
General Manager
North Plains Groundwater Conservation District
Phone 806.935.6401
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Fax 806.935.6633
Mission: Maintaining our way of life through conservation, protection, and preservation of our groundwater resources.
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August 13, 2009
NGWA invites you to ponder and then answer the two questions listed here. You can elect to answer both, or just one (or, of course, neither), and you can be as detailed, or as brief, as you wish. We look forward to your insights.
1) What is the one most important research question in groundwater science that needs answering in the next decade?
How will global climate change affect water quality and quantity of major aquifers?
2) What is the one most important research question in water well system technology that needs answering in the next decade?
NGWA will gather, summarize, and share the responses from this informal inquiry among subscribers to The Well in the next 30 days.
Thanks for weighing in.
kevin mccray, cae | executive director |
national ground water association |
601 dempsey road | westerville, ohio 43081 usa |
ph/ 800 551.7379 (1 614 898.7791), ext 503 | fax/ 1 614 898.7786 |
www.ngwa.org www.wellowner.org www.groundwateradventurers.org
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Mary C Hill
a few of my thoughts.
1) What is the one most important research question in groundwater
science that needs answering in the next decade?
In what ways and under what circumstances can improving the science produce
more accurate models and, hopefully, wiser societal decisions about how to
best use our groundwater resources?
2) What is the one most important research question in water well
system technology that needs answering in the next decade?
Can the consequences of groundwater development, including effects on
ecosystems, be predicted well enough to avoid additional difficulties and
remediate existing problems? If not, how should we proceed?
Mary
Mary C. Hill, MSE, PhD
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August 13, 2009
NGWA invites you to ponder and then answer the two questions listed here.
You can elect to answer both, or just one (or, of course, neither), and you
can be as detailed, or as brief, as you wish. We look forward to your
insights.
1) What is the one most important research question in groundwater
science that needs answering in the next decade?
2) What is the one most important research question in water well
system technology that needs answering in the next decade?
NGWA will gather, summarize, and share the responses from this informal
inquiry among subscribers to The Well in the next 30 days.
Thanks for weighing in.
kevin mccray, cae | executive director |
national ground water association |
601 dempsey road | westerville, ohio 43081 usa |
kmc...@ngwa.org |
ph/ 800 551.7379 (1 614 898.7791), ext 503 | fax/ 1 614 898.7786 |
www.ngwa.org www.wellowner.org www.groundwateradventurers.org
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Kimball, Greg
1) What is the one most important research question in groundwater science that needs answering in the next decade?
How do we do a better job of estimating/calculating/understanding the impacts of pumping/injection/chemical transport in anisotropic non-homogeneous aquifers; in other words, in the world in which most of us work.
2) What is the one most important research question in water well system technology that needs answering in the next decade?
How can we get sustainable drinking water wells to the huge number of peoples that desperately need it?
Technologically, politically, financially and sustainably (includes maintenance and hydrogeologic aspects, sustainable yield etc.)
Greg Kimball
Technical Manager
WSP Environment &
Energy
123 N. 3rd St., Suite 808
Minneapolis, MN 55401
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NGWA invites you to ponder and then answer the two questions listed here. You can elect to answer both, or just one (or, of course, neither), and you can be as detailed, or as brief, as you wish. We look forward to your insights.
3) What is the one most important research question in groundwater science that needs answering in the next decade?
4) What is the one most important research question in water well system technology that needs answering in the next decade?
NGWA will gather, summarize, and share the responses from this informal inquiry among subscribers to The Well in the next 30 days.
Thanks for weighing in.
kevin mccray, cae | executive director |
national ground water association |
601 dempsey road | westerville, ohio 43081 usa |
ph/ 800 551.7379 (1 614 898.7791), ext 503 | fax/ 1 614 898.7786 |
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Stuart Smith
1) What is the one most important research question in ground-water science that needs answering in the next decade?
One? I would nominate developing a refined understanding the composition and mechanisms of the microbial ecosystems of aquifers as an important aspect of ground-water quality management. A policy component is to take all that seriously in ground-water resource management.
2) What is the one most important research question in water well system technology that needs answering in the next decade?
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Walker, Doug
Regarding Kevin’s second question, what is the one most important research question in water well system technology that needs answering in the next decade, I would agree with Oscar Torres, who suggested that finding and maintaining useful new technologies is the major issue. I would, however, rephrase this as: how do we build and support user communities to disseminate and exchange water well technology?
Knowledge Management provides some strategies and tools to help disseminate information and exchange ideas. A relevant example is the recent effort launched to build a cybercollaboratory that leverages search engines, social network technologies, etc. to build a forum for small water supply operators at http://smallwatersupply.org/. The site is still being developed (target launch date of this fall), but when completed it will be will be a virtual convention, disseminating research and exchanging ideas among peers and evolving as needs and technologies evolve.
Of course, we can create such forums, but they are unlikely to be the final answer. Will anyone participate in cybercollaboratories? If not, what will well operators embrace? I’ve submitted a session proposal on this topic for the next GW Summit with Steve Wilson, the project director of smallwatersupply.org. Maybe we’ll get some good discussion going there.
ddw
Mitja Brilly
1) What is the one most important research question in groundwater science that needs answering in the next decade?
Specific quality of groundwater as subtle energy or "nano-water" is very important for human metabolism. The question is what is the impact of water regime and properties of aquifer on the subtle energy.
2) What is the one most important research question in water well system technology that needs answering in the next decade?
The question how different kind of well system and their maintenance has impact on subtle energy of water?
Best regards, Brilly
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