chapter 1 Values and functions of groundwater under cities / chapter 2 Characteristics of urban groundwater / chapter 3 Sources, types, characteristics and investigation of urban groundwater pollutants / chapter 4 Mature industrial cities / chapter 5 Rapidly-urbanising arid-zone cities / chapter 6 Urban areas of sub-Saharan Africa: weathered crystalline aquifer systems / chapter 7 Cities overlying karst and karst-like aquifers / chapter 8 GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT IN URBAN ALLUVIAL AQUIFER SYSTEMS: CASE STUDIES FROM THREE CONTINENTS: AGADIR, LIMA, / chapter 9 Shallow porous aquifers in Mediterranean climates