Sustainable Groundwater Irrigation : Approaches to Reconciling Demand with Resources
The aim of this paper is to provide a strategic overview of a decade of experience in supporting public administrations in their efforts to confront excessive groundwater resource exploitation for agricultural irrigation. Special emphasis is put on...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/603961468331259686/Sustainable-groundwater-irrigation-approaches-to-reconciling-demand-with-resources http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27818 |
| Summary: | The aim of this paper is to provide a
strategic overview of a decade of experience in supporting
public administrations in their efforts to confront
excessive groundwater resource exploitation for agricultural
irrigation. Special emphasis is put on a series of
on-the-ground pilot projects mainly in South and East Asia
and Latin America, which are profiled through a series of
boxes introduced in the paper. In these pilots'
appropriate packages of technical, economic, institutional
and social measures, in the main selected through use of a
'pragmatic framework' for groundwater resource
management, have been introduced with agreement of
stakeholders in an attempt to promote more sustainable
groundwater use in agricultural irrigation. They have
achieved varying degrees of success but do provide hope and
orientation for the future in this important aspect of water
resource management. |
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