The IAH Coastal Aquifer Dynamics and Coastal Zone Management website

This website of the IAH Coastal Aquifer Dynamics and Coastal Zone Management (CAD-CZM) Network has been set up to collect and organize data and information on coastal aquifer characteristics from all over the world and let them available to researchers, professionals, and stakeholders. The IAH Network aims at promoting the improvement of tools for gaining a better understanding of the specific hydrological process dynamics in coastal areas and for improving the assessment, development and management of water resources endangered by saltwater intrusion. The network tries to satisfy the interest expressed in the recommendations issued on different occasions by UNESCO and IAEA for studying coastal areas in the frame of joint programs in cooperation with other international agencies. The www.iah.cad-czm.net has been organized to collect information coming from any kind of source, as technical as scientific, and its target is make them available to let them taken under control the rate of exploitation and the management state of these vulnerable groundwater resources. The website organization is like that anyone could find the specific coastal zone, he is interested in gaining information, only looking for it on the google earth link, present inside the website. Once the coastal zone has been found, it is possible to download, if present, the specific sheet including all the information collected, checked and uploaded, by the scientific committee of the website. The life and utility of this website depend on the capacity of all technical and scientific people involved in coastal aquifers studies and management to feed it by updated information on this important subject.