The groundwater and the seawater intrusion in Apulia: from research to the emergency in the safeguard of the water resource

Among its institutional tasks, the Geological Survey of Italy promotes the study of the hydrogeological aspects and problems on the national territory. The monograph on the groundwaters of the Puglia Region, supported by precise and comprehensive qualitative and quantitative data, reports with a wealth of details the results of multidisciplinary studies conducted since 1954 to date in the context of various regional Research Projects. In particular, the aspects related to the availability, vulnerability, protection and sustainable exploitation of the groundwaters resource and the geostructural and hydrogeological characterization of the aquifers are highlighted, also considering the qualitative and quantitative degradation determined by the marine intrusion in the continent, thus providing modern criteria to support a policy of optimal management of the resource itself and its protection and safeguard. In practice, a hydrogeological summa of the knowledge currently available on the groundwaters of the Puglia Region, the result of a careful, accurate and passionate multi-year research by the volume editor, Prof. Eng. Vincenzo Cotecchia.

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