Download or read book Groundwater for Sustainable Development written by Prosun Bhattacharya and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-04-09 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundwater is the most important source of domestic, industrial, and agricultural water and also a finite resource. Population growth has created an unprecedented demand for water, with the situation most critical in the developing world, where several million people depend on contaminated groundwater for drinking purposes. Geogenic contaminants,