The global groundwater situation: overview of opportunities and challenges

Tushaar Shah, David J. Molden, Ramasamy Sakthivadivel and David Seckler

No 113506 in IWMI Books from International Water Management Institute

Abstract: Groundwater offers us few but precious opportunities for alleviating the misery of the poor; but it poses many—and daunting—challenges of preserving the resource itself. A big part of the answer is massive initiatives to augment groundwater recharge in regions suffering depletion; but, in the ultimate analysis, these cannot work without appropriate demand-side interventions. The water vision of a world that future generations will inherit will have to be the one in which groundwater plays its full developmental, productive and environmental role but in a sustainable manner; and the framework of action to realize this vision will mean eschewing the current free-for-all in groundwater appropriation and use, and promoting a more responsible management of this precious resource that is easy to deplete or ruin—through depletion, salinization and pollution

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Environmental Economics and Policy; Food Security and Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.113506

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