Muddy Waters: Refining the Way forward for the “Sustainability Science” of Socio-Hydrogeology

摘要: The trouble with groundwater is that despite its critical importance to global water supplies, it frequently attracts insufficient management attention relative more visible surface sources, irrespective of regional climate, socioeconomic profile, and regulatory environment. To this end, the recently defined sub-discipline “socio-hydrogeology”, an extension socio-hydrology, seeks translate exchange knowledge between non-expert end-users, in addition involving opinion experience hydrogeological investigations, thus emphasising a “bottom-up” methodology. It widely acknowledged issues pertaining quality, quantity, climate change, poor general awareness understanding occurrence movement are their scope. Moreover, while effective communication engagement represent key tenet socio-hydrogeology, authors consider multiple actors should be identified incorporated using stakeholder network analysis may include policymakers, media communications experts, mobile technology developers, social scientists, appropriately convey demographically focused bi-directional information, community representing keystone. Accordingly, article aims highlight past current work, elucidate areas development within offer recommendations ensure efficacy increasingly important growing field going forward. seek assist protecting our resource for future generations via improved framework interaction communities systems.