Did you know you can search all of the Groundwater Project webbooks for a topic by specifying the site URL in the Google search?
To search the Groundwater Project (GW-Project) webbooks for a specific term, open a Google search engine and type in the term followed by site:books.gw-project.org. Some of the most common groundwater related search terms include transpiration, water cycle, confined aquifer, and recharge. For example, to look up confined aquifers, search for “confined aquifers site:books.gw-project.org.”
This results in Google providing a list of all the locations in Groundwater Project webbooks that include the topic “confined aquifer”, with over 200 results for this specific search term. The first result comes from the webbook “Hydrogeologic Properties of Earth Materials and Principles of Groundwater Flow”, specifically section 6.3 “Confined Aquifers”. This is followed by images from many of the books, as well as a section on “Aquifers and Confining Units” in the webbook “Groundwater in Our Water Cycle”, and multiple sections in the webbook “Groundwater Storage in Confined Aquifers”.
When searching for another commonly used term “recharge”, Google returns over 300 results from the Groundwater Project webbooks.
These include specific sections in the books “Hydrogeologic Properties of Earth Materials And Principles Of Groundwater Flow”, “Introduction to Isotopes and Environmental Tracers as Indicators of Groundwater Flow”, and “Managed Aquifer Recharge: Southern Africa”, in addition to image results from many GWP books.
Use of site:books.gw-project.org in a Google search will bring you Groundwater Project materials that may have been difficult to find before. To find a topic anywhere on the Groundwater Project Site, use site:gw‑project.org. Also, using site:fc79.gw-project.org, will provide links to places in the GW-Project’s online version of Freeze and Cherry’s book “Groundwater”.
