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Villarroya Gil, Fermín Ignacio

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Fermín Ignacio
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Villarroya Gil
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/81708
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Ciencias Geológicas
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Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología
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Geodinámica Externa
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    Easier Said Than Done? The Establishment of Baseline Groundwater Conditions for the Implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Spain
    (Water Resources Management, 2013) De Stefano, Lucia; Martínez Santos, Pedro; Villarroya Gil, Fermín Ignacio; Chico, Daniel; Martínez-Cortina, Luis
    The European Union (EU) Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires EU countries to achieve good status of all their waters by 2015. This should be achieved through the implementation of river basin management plans (RBMPs), which in turn are based on water resources baseline data. While it is too soon to assess the WFD effectiveness, the lanning process has contributed to identify possible pitfalls of the WFD design and has provided an opportunity to enhance the knowledge of European water resources. Groundwater plays a strategic role in Spain’s economy and also in the maintenance of its aquatic ecosystems, making that country an excellent testing ground for getting an insight into the definition of baseline groundwater under the WFD mandate. This paper presents the results of compiling the information produced for the RBMPs to attain an overall picture at a national scale. In doing so, it examines some of the methodological and technical choices involved in the definition of a baseline for groundwater, assessing their practical consequences on groundwater management. This paper argues that having baseline figures for the RBMPs required compromises or shortcuts to be taken. Undoubtedly, the process leading to the first WFD Plans has been an extremely enriching learning process, but it leaves questions unanswered. The periodic (6 year) RBMP revision should become an opportunity to revisit and better tune the baseline conditions established during this first planning cycle.
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    A Commune-Level Groundwater Potential Map for the Republic of Mali
    (Water, 2017) Díaz Alcaide, Silvia; Martínez Santos, Pedro; Villarroya Gil, Fermín Ignacio
    Groundwater represents an essential resource in sub-Saharan Africa, where several hundred million people rely on aquifers for domestic supply. This paper presents a method to map groundwater potential in the Republic of Mali based on a spatially-distributed database of 26,040 boreholes. The database includes exhaustive information on key parameters such as borehole location, success rate of borehole production, depth, yield, static groundwater level or water quality. Representative variables were classified and interpreted jointly to develop a groundwater potential index for each of the 703 communes in Mali. This provides a methodological novelty because groundwater potential studies typically rely on indirect indicators such as lineaments, slope, soil moisture and landforms. Also, such large borehole databases have seldom been used to estimate groundwater potential. The highest indexes were obtained for the areas in and around the River Niger’s Inner Delta, including southern Tombouctou and the central parts of the Ségou and Mopti Regions. The lower Precambrian formations, which include the country’s thoroughly populated southern plateau, had moderate scores. The lowest groundwater potential was found in the northern part of the Kayes and Koulikoro Regions, as well as in the entire region of Kidal. By providing results at the commune scale, these outcomes show that groundwater potential across the country’s geological and hydrogeological units can be highly variable, and that local and regional-scale information may be useful for groundwater management purposes. These results are policy-relevant in a context of rapid change and population growth, where groundwater resources can be expected to be increasingly relied upon in the coming years.
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    The Guadiana basin
    (The Adaptive Water Resource Management Handbook, 2010) Llamas, M. R.; Varela Ortega, C.; Hera, A. de la; Aldaya, M. M.; Villarroya Gil, Fermín Ignacio; Martínez Santos, Pedro; Blanco Gutiérrez, I. M. M.; Carmona García, G.; Esteve Bengoechea, P.; De Stefano, Lucia; Hernandez-Mora Zapata, Nuria; Zorrilla, P.; Mysiak, Jaroslav; Henrikson, Hans Jorgen; Sullivan, Caroline; Bromley, John; Pahl-Wostl, Claudia