Collection of Managed Aquifer Recharge Papers Published

Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) has long been utilized to help meet water management objectives. In 1978, the first symposium on artificial recharge was held in Phoenix, Arizona. Then, in 1988 the American Society of Civil Engineers organized the First International Symposium on Artificial Recharge of Groundwater in Anaheim, California, launching what is now known as the International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge (ISMAR). Released this month, “Managed Aquifer Recharge for Water Resilience” is a collection of some of the works presented at ISMAR10, held in Madrid, Spain, in 2019. The book is a compiled edition of the Special Issue published in the journal Water. It includes MAR cases from 14 countries and was collaboratively edited by Peter Dillon, Enrique Fernández Escalante, Sharon B. Megdal, and Gudrun Massmann. In their preface to the Special Issue, the editors note: “This Special Issue strives to elucidate the effectiveness, benefits, constraints, limitations, and applicability of MAR, together with its scientific advances, to a wide variety of situations that have global relevance.” The book catalogs the articles into three categories: water security improvement, water quality improvement, and environmental protection and restoration. The book is available online as an open-access PDF.