Groundwater Quality Protection : A Guide for Water Utilities, Municipal Authorities, and Environment Agencies

This publication provides guidance to water-sector decision makers and planners on how to deal with the quality dimension of groundwater resources management in the World Bank's client countries. There is growing evidence of increasing pollution threats to groundwater and some well-documented cases of irreversible damage to important aquifers. This guide has been produced in the belief that groundwater pollution hazard assessment must become an essential part of environmental best practice for water supply utilities. The guide is particularly relevant for the World Bank's Latin American and Caribbean Region, where many countries have initiated major changes to modernize their institutional and legal framework for water resources management, but may not yet have considered groundwater at the same level as surface water, because of lack of awareness and knowledge of groundwater issues and policy options.

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Main Authors:	Foster, Stephen, Hirata, Ricardo, Gomes, Daniel, D'Elia, Monica, Paris, Marta
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2002-09-30
Subjects:	ABSTRACTION RATE, ABSTRACTIONS, ADSORPTION, AGRICULTURAL CULTIVATION, AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION, ANIMALS, AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS, AQUIFER, AQUIFER BOUNDARIES, AQUIFER POLLUTION, AQUIFER POLLUTION VULNERABILITY, AQUIFER PROTECTION, AQUIFER RECHARGE, AQUIFER SYSTEM, AQUIFER SYSTEMS, AQUIFER VULNERABILITY MAPPING, AQUIFERS, ARSENIC, ATTENUATION, BACTERIA, BOREHOLES, BUFFER ZONES, CATCHMENT, CLEAN-UP, COAL, COD, CONSERVING WATER, CONSTRUCTION, CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT, COOLING, COVERING, DEEP AQUIFERS, DISINFECTION, DOMESTIC WASTEWATER, DRAINAGE, EFFLUENT DISCHARGE, ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, EXCESSIVE ABSTRACTION, EXCRETA, FAULTS, FE, FRESHWATER, GAS, GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS, GLOBAL WATER PARTNERSHIP, GRAVITY, GROUNDWATER, GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION, GROUNDWATER EXTRACTION, GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT, GROUNDWATER POLLUTION, GROUNDWATER PROTECTION, GROUNDWATER QUALITY, GROUNDWATER QUALITY DETERIORATION, GROUNDWATER RECHARGE, GROUNDWATER RESOURCE, GROUNDWATER RESOURCES, GROUNDWATER SOURCES, GROUNDWATER STORAGE, GROUNDWATER SUPPLIES, GROUNDWATER SUPPLY, GROUNDWATER TABLE, GROUNDWATER USERS, HEAVY METALS, HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY, HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES, HYDROCARBONS, HYDROGEOLOGY, INDUSTRIAL PREMISES, INDUSTRIAL SOLID WASTE, INDUSTRIAL WASTE, INFILTRATION, INFILTRATION GALLERIES, IRON, IRRIGATION FIELD, ISOTOPES, LAND SURFACE, LAND USE, LANDFILL LEACHATE, LATRINES, LEAKAGE, MANGANESE, MINERAL WATERS, MINERALS, MINING, MOISTURE CONTENT, MONITORING PROGRAM, MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER, MUNICIPAL WATER, MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLIES, MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLY, NATURAL RECHARGE, NITRIFICATION, NUTRIENTS, ORGANIC COMPOUNDS, ORGANIC MATTER, PATHOGENS, PERCOLATION, PESTICIDES, PIPE, POLICY LEVEL, POLLUTION, POLLUTION CONTROL, POROSITY, POTABLE WATER, PRECIPITATION, PRESSURE, PROTECTION AREAS, PROTECTION OF GROUNDWATER, PROTECTION OF GROUNDWATER RESOURCES, PUBLIC HEALTH, PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY, PUMPING, PUMPING RATES, PUMPING WELLS, QUALITY OF WATER, RAINFALL, RAW WATER, RUNOFF, SAFE DISPOSAL, SANITARY ENGINEERING, SANITARY SURVEYS, SANITATION, SEDIMENTS, SEPTIC TANKS, SEWAGE, SOIL MEDIA, SOIL PROFILE, SOILS, SOLID WASTE, SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL, SOURCE PROTECTION, SPRINGS, STORAGE TANKS, SUBSURFACE WATER, SULPHATE, SURFACE WATER, SURFACE WATER BODIES, UNDERGROUND STORAGE, UTILITY COMPANIES, VADOSE ZONE, VIRUSES, WASTEWATER, WASTEWATER DISPOSAL, WASTEWATER IRRIGATION, WASTEWATER REUSE, WATER AUTHORITY, WATER BALANCE, WATER BODY, WATER COMPANIES, WATER DEMAND, WATER DISTRIBUTION, WATER DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS, WATER POLLUTANTS, WATER QUALITY, WATER RESOURCE, WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, WATER SERVICE, WATER SUPPLY, WATER SUPPLY UTILITIES, WATER SYSTEMS, WATER TREATMENT, WATER UTILITIES, WELL DRILLING, WELL MAINTENANCE,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/09/10163573/groundwater-quality-protection-guide-water-utilities-municipal-authorities-environment-agencies https://hdl.handle.net/10986/13843
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