A multiscale soil water balance for sustainable groundwater management of a local transboundary karst aquifer
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41210%2F25%3A102990" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41210/25:102990 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www-sciencedirect-com.infozdroje.czu.cz/science/article/pii/S2352801X25001481?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www-sciencedirect-com.infozdroje.czu.cz/science/article/pii/S2352801X25001481?via%3Dihub</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gsd.2025.101551" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.gsd.2025.101551</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A multiscale soil water balance for sustainable groundwater management of a local transboundary karst aquifer
Original language description
Sustainable groundwater management of transboundary aquifers (TBAs) remains a major global and regional challenge that requires necessitating enhanced, coordination and cooperation among neighboring countries and institutions. The Avella Mts. are a major karst TBA of the Campania region (Italy), providing vital groundwater resources, whose water balance equilibrium is increasingly threatened by uncontrolled growth in groundwater extraction, especially during prolonged drought periods. A multiscale soil water balance was performed for the period 2010-2021 to assess the sustainability of current groundwater withdrawals. The findings reveal a high spatio-temporal variability of groundwater recharge (GR). At the aquifer scale, average GR equals to 244.40 Mm3/y, with interannual variability of about-45 % and +73 %. At the basin scale, recharge on average varies between 29.64 Mm3/y and 100.28 Mm3/y. The springs inventory map and the register of authorized wells highlight an outgoing groundwater volume of 252.30 Mm3/y, at the aquifer scale, while at the basin scale, it varies between 6.30 Mm3/y and 97.76 Mm3/y, exceeding the recharge in certain groundwater basins. Consequently, there is a budgetary disequilibrium within the aquifer, which is particularly pronounced during drought years, as evidenced by the drying of springs and streams. These results highlight significant aquifer stress, which is projected to worsen in the future due to climate change. They demonstrate the urgent need to adopt sustainable groundwater management strategies and reform existing water governance model in the Campania region, as well as in other parts of Italy and Europe.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10501 - Hydrology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Groundwater for Sustainable Development
ISSN
2352-801X
e-ISSN
2352-801X
Volume of the periodical
31
Issue of the periodical within the volume
NOV 2025
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
1-26
UT code for WoS article
001630899000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105022802122