Data/hora: 10/06/2024 17:09:45

Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | The global groundwater situation: overview of opportunities and challenges
Autores: | Shah,   Tushaar; Molden,   David J.; Sakthivadivel,   Ramasamy; Seckler,   David.
Data: | 2011-08-22
Ano: | 2000
Palavras-chave: | Groundwater resources; Groundwater depletion; Water scarcity; Water shortage; Poverty; Rural development; River basins; Sustainability; Waterlogging; Salinity; Aquifers; Water pollution; Pumps; Recharge; Water harvesting; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Environmental Economics and Policy; Food Security and Poverty.
Resumo: | 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
Tipo: | Book
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

92-9090-402- X

http://purl.umn.edu/113506

Relação: | International Water Management Institute&gt;IWMI Books
Formato: | 21p.