(Groundwater Resources Assessment under the Pressures of Humanity and Climate Change)
Groundwater is the major water resource across much of the world but there has been very little research on the potential effects of climate change, because of the invisibility of the phenomena and difficulty of the evaluations. Groundwater acts as a component of the global water cycle on the Earth, and awareness of the importance of global groundwater issues is now increasing. In this International symposium, the UNESCO-GRAPHIC (Groundwater Resources Assessment under the Pressures of Humanity and Climate Changes) project will be introduced, and an overview of global groundwater issues such as the effects of climate changes and human activities on groundwater, methodologies for evaluating those effects, and a brief summary of current activities by an international scientific team in this field and the pilot projects will be envisaged.
