TITLE:
Fresh Groundwater Resources in Georgia and Management Problems
AUTHORS:
George Gaprindashvili, Merab Gaprindashvili
KEYWORDS:
Groundwater, Transboundary, Artesian Basins, Georgia, Quality Drinking Water, Hydrogeology
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Geosciences,
Vol.5 No.9,
August
15,
2014
ABSTRACT: As it is known fresh water represents conditioned factor for human body’s
life. That’s why the superiority of drinking water is recognized as human body’s
priority according to the international declarations. World is experiencing deficit
of quality water. Natural Disasters caused by the pollution of the fresh ground
water is also very painful and acute, because it needed more time, more material
and financial means for the liquidation of their results, and what the most important
practically is, it is impossible to renew the initial natural conditions completely.
All these conditions that the rational use of fresh ground water passed by the interests
of separate countries and became worldwide, international problem-fresh water became
as considerable raw material for the worlds import and export. Future prognosis
is disturbing—according to
the data of UN for 2025 year 2/3 of world population will be under the water deficit
conditions. Above-mentioned shows how important fresh water is for humanity. Below
we present briefly review about the situation of fresh ground water resources and
the analysis of the problems in transboundary artesian basins of Georgia.