Focus on Mediterranean ground water management in the Hydrogeology Journal

The last issue of the Hydrogeology Journal (Volume 25 Number 6) has a special focus on Mediterranean ground waters. It addresses in particular: Groundwater-based agriculture ; Anthropization of groundwater resources; Considering groundwater use to improve the assessment of groundwater pumping for irrigation; Specifying the differentiated contribution of farmers to groundwater depletion; Groundwater overexploitation: why is the red flag waved? Case study on the Kairouan plain aquifer (central Tunisia); Below the radar: the boom of groundwater use in the central part of the Nile Delta; Can agricultural groundwater economies collapse? An inquiry into the pathways of four groundwater economies under threat.