地下水资源的本质属性、功能及开展水文地质学研究的意义

Essential Attributes and Functions of Groundwater and the Significance of Hydrogeology Studies

水资源短缺、水污染问题的加剧给人类社会经济发展及生态环境带来了一系列问题,使得人们不得不重新审视地下水资源的本质属性和功能。文章从自然科学和社会学角度对地下水资源的本质属性、功能进行研究,论述了地下水的自然、科学和社会等不同属性及其相应的物质功能、能量功能、调蓄功能和信息功能。在此基础上,提出了进一步开展水文地质学研究的意义。

With the social and economical development of the world,people's viewpoint has changed with regard to the quality of social and ecological environment.As water shortage and water pollution have resulted in a series of environmental problems, people begin to reconsider the attributes and the functions groundwater. This paper,based on the knowledge of (natural) sciences and sociology,studies these aspects of groundwater,analysing its natural and social attributes and its material,energy and reservation functions.The paper also discusses the significance of hydrogeology studies.