in their efforts to confront excessive groundwater resource exploitation for agricultural irrigation. Special emphasis is … 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 …

where people would gather and dwell, groundwater constitutes about 98 percent of the fresh water on our planet (excepting …. Groundwater resources in and around the urban centers of the developing world are exceptionally important as a source of … widespread indications of degradation in the quality and quantity of groundwater, serious or incipient, caused by excessive …

further advances in plant genetics. Groundwater widely developed by private initiative but often stimulated by 'soft loan … time groundwater will continue to be the predominant source of household water for the rural population in developing …

dimension of groundwater resources management in the World Bank's client countries. There is growing evidence of increasing … pollution threats to groundwater and some well-documented cases of irreversible damage to important aquifers. This guide has … been produced in the belief that groundwater pollution hazard assessment must become an essential part of environmental …