The global groundwater situation: opportunities and challenges

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

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Shah, Tushaar, Molden, David J., Sakthivadivel, Ramaswamy, Seckler, D.
Format:	Journal Article biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	2001
Subjects:	groundwater resources, groundwater depletion, water scarcity, water shortage, poverty, rural development, river basins, sustainability, waterlogging, salinity, aquifers, water pollution, pumps, recharge, water harvesting,
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/41301
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