The Water Budget Myth Revisited: Why Hydrogeologists Model
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- 1 July 2002
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Groundwater
- Vol. 40 (4) , 340-345
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6584.2002.tb02511.x
Abstract
Within the ground water community, the idea persists that if one can estimate the recharge to a ground water system, one then can determine the size of a sustainable development. Theis addressed this idea in 1940 and showed it to be wrong‐yet the myth continues. The size of a sustainable ground water development usually depends on how much of the discharge from the system can be “captured” by the development. Capture is independent of the recharge; it depends on the dynamic response of the aquifer system to the development. Ground water models were created to study the response dynamics of ground water systems; it is one of the principal reasons hydrogeologists model.Keywords
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