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 ultima...

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Autores principales: Shah, Tushaar, Molden, David J., Sakthivadivel, Ramaswamy, Seckler, D.
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2001
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/41301
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author Shah, Tushaar
Molden, David J.
Sakthivadivel, Ramaswamy
Seckler, D.
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description 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
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spelling CGSpace413012023-06-13T05:00:07Z The global groundwater situation: opportunities and challenges Shah, Tushaar Molden, David J. Sakthivadivel, Ramaswamy Seckler, D. groundwater resources groundwater depletion water scarcity water shortage poverty rural development river basins sustainability waterlogging salinity aquifers water pollution pumps recharge water harvesting 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 2001 2014-06-13T14:57:50Z 2014-06-13T14:57:50Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/41301 en Limited Access Shah, T.; Molden, D.; Sakthivadivel, R.; Seckler, D. 2001. The global groundwater situation: opportunities and challenges. Economic and Political Weekly, 36(43):4142-4150.
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groundwater depletion
water scarcity
water shortage
poverty
rural development
river basins
sustainability
waterlogging
salinity
aquifers
water pollution
pumps
recharge
water harvesting
Shah, Tushaar
Molden, David J.
Sakthivadivel, Ramaswamy
Seckler, D.
The global groundwater situation: opportunities and challenges
title The global groundwater situation: opportunities and challenges
title_full The global groundwater situation: opportunities and challenges
title_fullStr The global groundwater situation: opportunities and challenges
title_full_unstemmed The global groundwater situation: opportunities and challenges
title_short The global groundwater situation: opportunities and challenges
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topic groundwater resources
groundwater depletion
water scarcity
water shortage
poverty
rural development
river basins
sustainability
waterlogging
salinity
aquifers
water pollution
pumps
recharge
water harvesting
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