Events
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9 Feb 2024 – Online and RIHN, Kyoto, Japan
International Symposium Groundwater Sustainability
Groundwater is one of major water resources for agriculture, industry, and drinking water, and also important part of environment and culture based on diverse values. About 70 percent of global freshwater consumption is for agriculture and more than half of this is groundwater, so groundwater is strongly connected with food production. Groundwater depletion at local scale is connected with the global economy through global food trade. Groundwater is also connected with energy. About 60 percent of costs for water allocations including groundwater pumping is from the energy sector, and geothermal energy and heat pumps are developing as renewable energy for sustainable society. Furthermore, groundwater is deeply connected to human wellbeing as culture diversity. In this symposium, we will discuss how global and local issues on groundwater are related in society, and what can we suggest for sustainable groundwater with trans-disciplinary way in global and local scales.
Price: free
Organised by IAH Japan National Chapter.
https://japan.iah.org/en/groundwatersustainability2024 miyakoshi-a@aist.go.jp