TY - JOUR
T1 - Revisión
T2 - Hidrogeología del Norte de Mendoza (Argentina), desde los Andes a las planicies del Este, en el contexto del cambio climático
AU - Gomez, Maria Laura
AU - Hoke, G.
AU - D’Ambrosio, S.
AU - Moreiras, S.
AU - Castro, A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Our special thanks to Amilcar Alvarez, Matias Martinis, Jorge Bartolomeo, Maximo Velga, Aldo Mosuchi, Jose Zuluaga, Alejandro Drovandi, professionals of the INA-CRA-Mendoza for providing the data and studies used in this paper. We would like to thank the two anonymous, excellent and committed reviewers, for their thoughtful comments and efforts towards improving our manuscript. We acknowledge Claudia Bottero for English revision and Mariano Tagua for DEM construction. This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to International Association of Hydrogeologists.
PY - 2022/5
Y1 - 2022/5
N2 - In the drylands of Northern Mendoza, Argentina, water supply depends on rivers and groundwater. Climate change makes this region vulnerable due to the snow-glacial-melt regime of the main rivers and populations being concentrated in “irrigated oasis” areas. This article synthesizes hydrogeological knowledge of Northern Mendoza, from the Andes to the eastern plains. The study collected hydrogeological information (published and unpublished) from 1974 to 2020 and analyzed the groundwater situation in the context of climate change. Northern Mendoza comprises fractured and clastic aquifers. Hydrogeological studies (mainly technical reports from the 1980s and 1990s) focused on clastic aquifers to support agricultural activities. These studies included general hydrochemical characterization and localized contamination surveys. Also, they included estimations of groundwater reserves and hydraulic parameters. The hydrogeology of mountain and foothill areas is mostly unknown. Further work is needed: quantification of groundwater resources, surveys of contamination and overexploitation of the confined and unconfined aquifers, better understanding of the surface-water/groundwater interaction, and an efficient monitoring network. The lack of updated information and a sustainable groundwater management strategy in irrigated areas has created legal conflicts among groundwater users, pollution problems, and high pressure on this finite resource. Besides, the poor current groundwater knowledge limits the regional economic development and the enforcement of protection measures against water contamination and overexploitation. Although the impacts of climate change on groundwater resources are globally uncertain, the adaptation to this change requires an improvement in the understanding of groundwater, professionalization of its management, and incorporation of technological advances in hydrogeology issues and water uses.
AB - In the drylands of Northern Mendoza, Argentina, water supply depends on rivers and groundwater. Climate change makes this region vulnerable due to the snow-glacial-melt regime of the main rivers and populations being concentrated in “irrigated oasis” areas. This article synthesizes hydrogeological knowledge of Northern Mendoza, from the Andes to the eastern plains. The study collected hydrogeological information (published and unpublished) from 1974 to 2020 and analyzed the groundwater situation in the context of climate change. Northern Mendoza comprises fractured and clastic aquifers. Hydrogeological studies (mainly technical reports from the 1980s and 1990s) focused on clastic aquifers to support agricultural activities. These studies included general hydrochemical characterization and localized contamination surveys. Also, they included estimations of groundwater reserves and hydraulic parameters. The hydrogeology of mountain and foothill areas is mostly unknown. Further work is needed: quantification of groundwater resources, surveys of contamination and overexploitation of the confined and unconfined aquifers, better understanding of the surface-water/groundwater interaction, and an efficient monitoring network. The lack of updated information and a sustainable groundwater management strategy in irrigated areas has created legal conflicts among groundwater users, pollution problems, and high pressure on this finite resource. Besides, the poor current groundwater knowledge limits the regional economic development and the enforcement of protection measures against water contamination and overexploitation. Although the impacts of climate change on groundwater resources are globally uncertain, the adaptation to this change requires an improvement in the understanding of groundwater, professionalization of its management, and incorporation of technological advances in hydrogeology issues and water uses.
KW - Argentina
KW - Clastic aquifers
KW - Drylands
KW - Fractured rocks
KW - Groundwater/surface-water interaction
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U2 - 10.1007/s10040-022-02462-z
DO - 10.1007/s10040-022-02462-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85126377461
SN - 1431-2174
VL - 30
SP - 725
EP - 750
JO - Hydrogeology Journal
JF - Hydrogeology Journal
IS - 3
ER -