Inventory of managed aquifer recharge sites in Europe: historical development, current situation and perspectives

• DOI: 10.1007/s10040-017-1554-8
• Publication Date: 2017-03-16T01:06:47Z
• Authors: C. Sprenger; N. Hartog; M. Hernández; E. Vilanova; G. Grützmacher; F. Scheibler; S. Hannappel
• Keywords: Water use

Different types of managed aquifer recharge (MAR) schemes are widely distributed and applied on various scales for purposes in the European countries, but a systematic categorization compilation data has been missing up to now. The MAR catalogue presented herein contains key parameters collected from available literature. includes 224 currently active sites found 23 countries. Large quantities drinking water produced by Hungary, Slovakia, Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Poland, Switzerland France. This inventory highlights that, over century, played an important role development supply contributes drinking-water production substantially. occurred autonomously, with “trial-and-error” within full range climatically hydrogeologically diverse conditions For future, potential facilitate optimal (re)use storage resources take advantage natural purification low energy requirements during operations. Particularly respect re-use wastewater treatment-plant effluent stormwater, which is underdeveloped, use can support public acceptance such water-resource efficient schemes. highly productive urbanized coastal zones, where pressure freshwater supplies increases growing demand, salinization increased agricultural needs food (such as along Mediterranean North Sea coasts), expected be increasingly relied Europe.