PUBLICATIONS (C) STRATEGIC ROLE OF GROUNDWATER

Work on policy and practice of non-renewable groundwater resource utilisation, on the conjunctive management of groundwater/surface-water resources, and on groundwater storage and water security.

1982Foster S S D, Mackie C D & Townsend P.   P Instn Civil Engr : 72 : 563-584Exploration, evaluation and development of large scale groundwater supplies in the Botswana Kalahari.C-1
1992FOSTER S S D.  IAH Selected Papers Hydrogeology                         3 : 321-336 Unsustainable development and irrational exploitation of groundwater resources in developing nations – an overview. 
1996Clarke R, Lawrence A & FOSTER S. UNEP Environ Library 15 Groundwater : a threatened resource. 
2008FOSTER S S D & Loucks D P. UNESCO-IHP VI Groundwater Series 15             Non-renewable groundwater resources – a guide to socially-sustainable management for water-policy makers.C-2
2010FOSTER S, Steenbergen F van, Zuleta J & Garduño H,  GW-MATE Strategic Overview Series 2 : World Bank Conjunctive use of groundwater and surface water – from spontaneous coping strategy to adaptive resource management.C-3
2012FOSTER S , Tuinhof A & Steenbergen F van.              Water SA   38 : 359Managed groundwater development for water-supply security in Sub-Saharan Africa ; investment priorities.C-4
2013FOSTER S, Chilton J, Nijsten G-J   & Richts A Current Opinion Environ Sustblty 5 : 685-695.Groundwater – a global focus on the ‘local resource’. 
2014FOSTER S & MacDonald A,  Hydrogeology J 22 : 1489-1492.The ‘water security’ dialogue – why it needs to be better informed about groundwater. 
2016


 		MacDonald A M et al
Nature Geoscience DOI:10.1038/NGEO2791

 		Groundwater quality and depletion in the Indo-Gangetic Basin mapped from in-situ observations
2017FOSTER S & Sage R
Hydrogeology Journal  25 : 1233-1236.		Groundwater science in water-utility operations : global reflections on current status and future need http://AH -HJ GW Science & Water Utilities (May 2017).pdfC-5
2020Argamasilla-Ruiz M, Foster S & Andreo-Navarro B 
Water Policy 22 : 961-971		Water-resource stress on the Spanish Costa del Sol : policy requirements to improve supply security.C-6
2020Hirata R & Foster S
Quart J Eng Geology & Hydrogeology 54 : 091		The Guarani Aquifer System – from regional reserves to local use.

GROUNDWATER – HIDDEN RESOURCE & CONCEALED HAZARD Groundwater Hydrogeology Aquifer Pollution Water Resource Management Water Resource Governance Water Environment Urban Water Geotechnical Drainage Agricultural Irrigation