State regulations in groundwater management: they bark but do they bite?
Because of the logics of both colonization or de-colonization, the need to counter the anarchy of groundwater use, or the dissemination of global 'best practices' of IWRM, states have often assumed full ownership or custody of groundwater. Regulating groundwater use includes giving drilling and abst...
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| author | Molle, Francois Closas, Alvar |
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| description | Because of the logics of both colonization or de-colonization, the need to counter the anarchy of groundwater use, or the dissemination of global 'best practices' of IWRM, states have often assumed full ownership or custody of groundwater. Regulating groundwater use includes giving drilling and abstraction authorizations/licenses, establishing an inventory of wells and reducing use in existing wells. Although laws and regulations look neat and straightforward on paper, registration, regularization, and metering have been bedeviled by a host of logistical nightmares, policy contradictions, legal challenges, and vested private interests. The overall outlook is bleak and questions the overstating of state power in reordering groundwater use. Co-management with users, while in itself not sufficient to ensure success, often arises as a possible way out of the failure of state control. |
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| spelling | CGSpace757932025-03-11T09:50:20Z State regulations in groundwater management: they bark but do they bite? Molle, Francois Closas, Alvar groundwater state intervention regulations water governance water use water policy aquifers wells water users water rights licences Because of the logics of both colonization or de-colonization, the need to counter the anarchy of groundwater use, or the dissemination of global 'best practices' of IWRM, states have often assumed full ownership or custody of groundwater. Regulating groundwater use includes giving drilling and abstraction authorizations/licenses, establishing an inventory of wells and reducing use in existing wells. Although laws and regulations look neat and straightforward on paper, registration, regularization, and metering have been bedeviled by a host of logistical nightmares, policy contradictions, legal challenges, and vested private interests. The overall outlook is bleak and questions the overstating of state power in reordering groundwater use. Co-management with users, while in itself not sufficient to ensure success, often arises as a possible way out of the failure of state control. 2015 2016-06-23T04:57:13Z 2016-06-23T04:57:13Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75793 en Open Access Molle, Francois; Closas, Alvar. 2015. State regulations in groundwater management: they bark but do they bite? Paper presented at the ICID 26th Euro-Mediterranean Regional Conference and Workshops on Innovate to Improve Irrigation Performances. Theme 3: What Governance for Groundwater and Surface Water Use in Agriculture?, Montpellier, France, 12-15 October 2015. 4p. |
| spellingShingle | groundwater state intervention regulations water governance water use water policy aquifers wells water users water rights licences Molle, Francois Closas, Alvar State regulations in groundwater management: they bark but do they bite? |
| title | State regulations in groundwater management: they bark but do they bite? |
| title_full | State regulations in groundwater management: they bark but do they bite? |
| title_fullStr | State regulations in groundwater management: they bark but do they bite? |
| title_full_unstemmed | State regulations in groundwater management: they bark but do they bite? |
| title_short | State regulations in groundwater management: they bark but do they bite? |
| title_sort | state regulations in groundwater management they bark but do they bite |
| topic | groundwater state intervention regulations water governance water use water policy aquifers wells water users water rights licences |
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