OBJECTIVES
The technical programme of the Congress includes conferences of invited speakers, oral presentations of the participants, poster sessions, round table discussions, workshops, a middle field trip and other optional post-congress field trips, in order to achieve the following objectives:
- Experience exchange on integral groundwater management with dependent ecosystems.
- Propose methods of defining, preventing, controlling and mitigating negative environmental impacts related with groundwater on the ecosystems.
- Discuss specific issues such as climate changes, groundwater quantity and quality and threatening processes in dependent ecosystems, biological aspects of groundwater dependent ecosystems, management and economic tools to protect groundwater, etc.
- Communicate with the general public and with non-groundwater specialists.
- Consider the importance of sustainable development of groundwater, with social, ecological and economic implications.
- Based on Congress results, present recommendations to administrators and professionals of water resources management.
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