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Ensuring Climate-Resilient Groundwater Levels Year-Round : A Framework to Propose Groundwater Norms and Measures to Mitigate Drought
Bart, A. de (2024) Ensuring Climate-Resilient Groundwater Levels Year-Round : A Framework to Propose Groundwater Norms and Measures to Mitigate Drought.
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| Abstract: | Climate change negatively affects the environment, resulting in more frequent and more intense extreme weather events such as droughts. Throughout the years the main focus in Dutch water management was to prevent flooding, by applying specified norms and measures to mitigate water nuisance as much as possible as described by law. However, as the impacts of the droughts become more severe over time, such as in the year 2018, it becomes clear that there is a huge gap in drought mitigation in water management in the Netherlands. This study investigates the possibility of standardizing groundwater management in the Netherlands related to drought by constructing a framework that will guide norms and measures to mitigate drought-related effects and ensure climate-resilient groundwater levels all year round. To be able to construct such a framework several methods are used. Based on literature research and interviews the current state of groundwater management could be described and the necessary steps of establishing a framework could be discovered. This research is performed in three steps. The literature faces in which the current state of water management standards has been investigated. Several measures and norms have been chosen and constructed that could act as instruments to mitigate the effects of drought on groundwater levels. Additionally, requirements of specific land uses have been investigated based on literature and interviews. The second phase was to develop a structure to propose a set of norms and measures, based on the first phase. In this structure, six steps will be taken: determination of land use type, determination of requirements of each land use type, selection of standards for assessment including norms and measures, the assessment of the norms and measures, the combined assessment to find the best measures and norms and the final advise. The third and final phase was evaluating the framework and the selected measures and norms constructed in the second phase during an expert session. The outcomes of the expert session helped to develop advice for the waterboard on how to mitigate the effects of drought on groundwater levels in a climate-resilient way. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Clients: | Unknown organization, Netherlands |
| Faculty: | ET: Engineering Technology |
| Programme: | Civil Engineering BSc (56952) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/104487 |
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