This subject aims to equip participants with discipline-specific knowledge and expertise enabling them to take their place as professional geologists in industry or government organisations. Students should be able to: - Determine the distribution, movement and quality of groundwater using conventional and emerging approaches/technologies; - Evaluate groundwater flow, storage, recharge and discharge, in the context of resource management, by applying appropriate tests; - Assess chemical and biogeochemical factors affecting the composition and evolution of groundwater chemistry; and - Apply knowledge obtained from the course to addressing problems of importance to the minerals and/or water resources industry (e.g. mine tailings dams, contaminant plume mitigation, etc.).