Search Results - "Overdrafting"

Ending groundwater overdraft without affecting food security by Perez, Nicostrato, Singh, Vartika, Ringler, Claudia, Xie, Hua, Zhu, Tingju, Sutanudjaja, Edwin H., Villholth, Karen G.

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Community management of groundwater resources: an appropriate response to groundwater overdraft in India? by Shah, Tushaar

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Groundwater overdraft reduction through agricultural energy policy: insights from India and Mexico by Scott, Christopher A., Shah, Tushaar

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Groundwater governance through electricity supply management: assessing an innovative intervention in Gujarat, western India by Shah, Tushaar, Bhatt, S., Shah, R.K., Talati, J.

“…A perverse link between energy subsidies and groundwater overdraft has left the state with a bankrupt electricity utility and depleted aquifers, especially since the late 1980s. …”
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Food and water scenarios for the Karkheh River Basin, Iran by Marjanizadeh, S., Fraiture, Charlotte de, Loiskandl, W.

“…Examining three scenarios to the year 2025, the authors of this study find: (1) business as usual leads to an aggravation of groundwater overdraft and may jeopardize the ecosystem services provided by the Hawr Al Azim marsh area; (2) giving priority to environmental flow requirements and restoring groundwater tables leads to a shortfall in wheat production; but (3) reducing agricultural water demand could maintain a certain level of food production. …”
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Controlling groundwater through smart card machines: the case of water quotas and pricing mechanisms in Gansu Province, China by Aarnoudse, E., Bluemling, B.

“…In 2002, however, the revised Water Law urged local authorities to regulate groundwater use in regions with overdraft. The Case Profile reviews, in detail, the use of smart card machines installed on wells by the local government to control abstraction. …”
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The Punjab Preservation of Subsoil Water Act: a regulatory mechanism for saving groundwater by Sharma, Bharat R., Ambili, G.K., Sidhu, B.S.

“…Groundwater resources, believed to have played an important role in Green Revolution induced agricultural productivity rise in India, is under serious threat due to overdraft. The unregulated exploitation of this limited resource had brought Indian Punjab into a state of acute water crisis. …”
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Agricultural groundwater management in the Upper Bhima Basin, India: current status and future scenarios by Lagudu, Surinaidu, Bacon, C.G.D., Pavelic, Paul

“…Model predictions associated with different climate change and abstraction scenarios indicate that the continuation of current rates of abstraction would lead to significant groundwater overdraft, with groundwater elevations predicted to fall by -6 m over the next three decades. …”
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Wake up to realities of river basin closure by Falkenmark, M., David, S.

“…Symptoms of poorly managed closed basins include groundwater overdraft, limited or no environmental flows, pollution and inequitable allocation of water. …”
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Challenges and prospects of sustainable groundwater management in the Indus Basin, Pakistan by Qureshi, A.S., McCornick, Peter G., Sarwar, A., Sharma, Bharat R.

“…However, this growth has also led to problems of overdraft, falling water tables and degradation of groundwater quality, and yields generally remain well below potential levels. …”
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Potential policy projects for decreasing fluoride concentrations in the groundwater of Aguascalientes, Mexico by Fällström, Elice

“…The focus lies on the aquifer of Valle de Aguascalientes, where fluoride contamination due to aquifer overdraft is becoming increasingly problematic. The projects evaluated are the installation of fluoride removal units using electrocoagulation (Project A), and the implementation of centre pivot irrigation systems (Project B). …”
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Groundwater governance and adoption of solar-powered irrigation pumps: experiences from the eastern Gangetic Plains by Bastakoti, Ram C., Raut, Manita, Thapa, Bhesh Raj

“…However, because low operating costs for SPIPs does little to incentivize farmers to use water efficiently, one critical question is how to balance equitable access to SPIPs while ensuring groundwater overdraft is not perpetuated. Farmers’ awareness of efficient water management options is crucial to avoid overextraction of groundwater.…”
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Unraveling agricultural water use in three Central Asian irrigation oases using remote sensing by Ragettli, S., Kreiner, A., Yakovlev, A., Anarbekov, O., Al-Zu’bi, Maha, Urazkeldiyev, A., Siegfried, T.

“…By integrating earth observation data into a water balance approach, we quantify variables that are typically challenging to measure, such as groundwater overdraft and non-growing season water use for soil preparation. …”
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Sixty years of global progress in managed aquifer recharge by Dillon, P., Stuyfzand, P., Grischek, T., Lluria, M., Jain, R.C., Bear, J., Schwarz, J., Wang, W., Fernández, E., Stefan, C., Pettenati, M., Gun, Jac van der, Sprenger, C., Massmann, G., Scanlon, Bridget R., Xanke, J., Jokela, P., Zheng, Y., Rossetto, R., Shamrukh, M., Pavelic, Paul, Murray, E., Ross, A., Bonilla Valverde, J.P., Palma Nava, A., Ansems, N., Posavec, K., Ha, K., Martin, R., Sapiano, M.

“…The last 60 years has seen unprecedented groundwater extraction and overdraft as well as development of new technologies for water treatment that together drive the advance in intentional groundwater replenishment known as managed aquifer recharge (MAR). …”
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