Successes for IAH’s commissions and networks include a topical collection of papers published in Hydrogeology Journal, and books on ‘Urban Groundwater’ and ‘MAR: Overview and Governance, Groundwater for Sustainable Livelihoods and Equitable Growth’. A special issue in the journal ‘Water’ highlighted ‘Regional Groundwater Flow Concept and Its Potential for Interdisciplinary Application’.
A working group was established within the IAH Socio-Hydrogeology Network to enhance Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility within IAH and the wider hydrogeological community.
Our Managing Aquifer Recharge (MAR) Commission now publishes a monthly newsletter, which is available at https://recharge.iah.org/files/2023/06/IAH-MAR-JUN-2023-newsletter.Pdf
MIKAS (Most Important Karst Aquifer’s Springs) is the international project of the Karst Commission. It aims to establish the first complete list of the most important karstic springs at a global level and create a code of practice. More details about MIKAS, and other Karst Commission news, are available at https://karst.iah.org/kc-news.
The Mineral and Thermal Waters Commission held a conference on ‘Advances in developing geothermal resources for heating, cooling and electricity production in developing geothermal resources for heating and cooling’ in Ljubljana, Slovenia and called for submissions to a special issue publication on ‘Sustainable Development of Hydrogeology’.
The IAH Commission on Transboundary Aquifers (TBA) now publishes a newsletter on its website at https://tba.iah.org/. TBA represented IAH at the global workshop ‘Conjunctive Management of Surface Water and Groundwater: National to Transboundary Level’, hosted by the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).
A new network was proposed, that will look at groundwater classification and is associated with the UNECE WG on groundwater classification; and an invitation was issued to interested members to establish a new group on groundwater for water, energy, food and ecosystems (WEFE). This will be managed closely with the IAH-UN working group, LUNA, as this becomes increasingly active.
Further information about all our commissions and networks is available at Commissions and Networks – IAH – The International Association of Hydrogeologists