Urban Groundwater Pollution

Urban Groundwater Pollution
Author: David Lerner
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0203971329

More than 50% of the world's population already live in cities, and the proportion is rising extremely rapidly towards developed country levels of more than 90%. Groundwater from wells is the major source of water supply for many of these cities, however, groundwater is polluted by the cities that overlie it and sewerage systems are oft