The global groundwater situation: overview of opportunities and challenges

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dc.creatorShah, Tushaar
dc.creatorMolden, David J.
dc.creatorSakthivadivel, Ramaswamy
dc.creatorSeckler, D.
dc.date2000
dc.date2014-06-12T13:48:43Z
dc.date2014-06-12T13:48:43Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T18:33:20Z
dc.descriptionGroundwater 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
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/36400
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/159277
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Water Management Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceShah, T.; Molden, D.; Sakthivadivel, R.; Seckler, D. 2000. The global groundwater situation: overview of opportunities and challenges. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). v, 21p. doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2011.0051
dc.subjectgroundwater resources
dc.subjectgroundwater depletion
dc.subjectwater scarcity
dc.subjectwater shortage
dc.subjectpoverty
dc.subjectrural development
dc.subjectriver basins
dc.subjectsustainability
dc.subjectwaterlogging
dc.subjectsalinity
dc.subjectaquifers
dc.subjectwater pollution
dc.subjectpumps
dc.subjectrecharge
dc.subjectwater harvesting
dc.titleThe global groundwater situation: overview of opportunities and challenges
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