WHAT IS AND WHAT ISN'T A !°BRACKISH GROUND-WATER RESOURCE?

49th ANNUAL NEW MEXICO WATER CONFERENCE

地球科学;生态环境科学

John W. Shomaker

Others  :  http://wrri.nmsu.edu/publish/watcon/proc49/shomaker.pdf
PID  :  16649

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

The theme of this article is that brackish and saline ground water is subject to the same rules, both scientific and administrative, that govern the flow and use of ground water in general. New attention being devoted to New Mexico's brackish-water resource does not imply that they are newly discovered, that they are unrelated to more conventional water resources, or that they can be developed without attention to the constraints that apply to other groundwater supplies. As usual, it is not so much the gross volume of water that might be present, but the costs and effects of withdrawing it, project by project, that determine its usefulness as a resource. Nothing in this paper is new; it is here as a reminder that what we know about fresh-water resources applies to brackish and saline water as well.