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Quality Protection of Ground Water

November 28, 2008

The objective is to promote the conservation and sustainable use of natural resource.

Introduction:

To support the National Water Quality Management Strategy, though the adoption of a package of market-based and regulatory measures including the establishment of appropriate water quality monitoring and catchments management policies and community consultation and awareness.

The COAG (1994), ARMCANZ (1996), ANZECC (1996), NWQMS (1995) refers to a number of approaches to groundwater protection, often expressed in broad terms, the degree to which these have been taken up by States1 is very limited and inconsistent. Moreover, the Guidelines are focused mainly on the broad-scale protection of groundwater quality and make only limited reference to the management of groundwater near contaminated sites or to the remediation of contaminated groundwater.

There is concern among groundwater resource managers that groundwater quality protection is not being adequately addressed at the policy level. Therefore, here some works prepared with the aim of promoting improved protection, and where necessary enhancement, of groundwater quality.

Earthquake Pre Awareness & Seismic Risk Reduction

November 28, 2008

The writing about global perspective is to provide guidance that will assist communities throughout the world in ongoing efforts to improve their capability for adopting and using real time communicating systems for the benefit of all sectors of the community.