What does a Hydrogeologist do?
A Hydrogeologist studies the occurrence, movement, quantity and quality of groundwater. They may for instance establish whether a sustainable groundwater resource is available for abstraction, whether the quality is good enough for a specific purpose (e.g. raw drinking water), how to reduce the groundwater level to allow mining (dewatering), whether groundwater has become contaminated and may be unfit for abstraction or may damage a surface water course by discharge, or whether material storage (e.g. tailings dams) may impact on groundwater quality et al.
