DELIBERATE OMISSION OR UNFORTUNATE OVERSIGHT: SHOULD STYGOFAUNAL SURVEYS BE INCLUDED IN ROUTINE GROUNDWATER MONITORING PROGRAMS?

Abstract

With burgeoning global exploitation of groundwater. Escalating groundwater exploitation is outstripping social and scientific understanding of the sustainability of this resource. To date, groundwater management has largely concerned quantity and hydrological sustainability of supply, water quality and protection from pollution, and more recently, economic and social governance. However, increasing public and political recognition of the importance of ecological sustainability heralds a new paradigm in groundwater management integrating hydrogeology and groundwater ecology.