Karst Aquifer Resources availability and quality in the Mediterranean Area (KARMA) - SURVEY

The KARMA project is a cooperation of (karst)-groundwater scientists from seven countries under the umbrella of the PRIMA initiative.

The objective of the KARMA project (2019-2022) is to achieve substantial progress in the hydrogeological understanding and sustainable management of karst groundwater resources in the Mediterranean region in terms of water availability and quality at different scales. The project is coordinated by Prof. Dr. Nico Goldscheider from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. For more information visit the website: www.karma-project.org

In the framework of the project, the KARMA survey is carried out in order to obtain a comprehensive picture of how the regional experts assess the importance of the tools for improved karst groundwater management developed in the KARMA project:

• Modeling tools

• Vulnerability maps

• Early warning systems (EWS) for groundwater contamination

• Mediterranean Karst Aquifer Map and database (MEDKAM)

Comments and evaluations from members of the entire groundwater community are very useful, not only from people living in Mediterranean countries and working on karst aquifers. Information collected by groundwater experts from different countries and based on experience with other aquifer typologies is equally relevant for our study.

The survey can be found here, answering only takes 5 minutes, the deadline is 30th November 2020.

If you are interested to know the results of the survey or need additional information, please contact the authors of the survey listed below:

Prof. Dr. Marco Petitta, Department of Earth Science, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, marco.petitta@uniroma1.it

Dr. Julian Xanke, Institute of Applied Geosciences, Division of Hydrogeology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, julian.xanke@kit.edu.