Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Contents -- Chairman's Summary -- Freshwater Resources in the Yucatan Peninsula -- An Overview of Mexico's Water Regime and the Role of Groundwater -- A Primer on Groundwater Management -- The Elements of Scientific Advice -- Where do Decision-Makers...

Groundwater has provided great benefits to agriculture irrigation in semi-arid OECD countries, but its intensive use beyond recharge in certain regions has depleted resources and generated significant negative environmental externalities. The report provides a characterisation of the diversity...

Groundwater allocation determines who is able to use groundwater resources, how, when and where. It directly affects the value (economic, ecological, socio-cultural) that individuals and society obtain from groundwater, today and in the future. Building on the 2015 OECD publication Water...

1. Introduction -- 2. Elements of hydrogeology -- 3. Legal aspects of groundwater -- 4. An introduction to the economic dimension of groundwater -- 5. Water transfers and transferable groundwater rights -- 6. International experience in the implementation of transferable groundwater rights -- 7....

Groundwater is our most important freshwater resource, but the lack of systematic analysis of its economic importance has evaded attention from policymakers and the general public-threatening the resource. "The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Economics of Groundwater in Times of Climate Change"...

The Jharkhand State Livelihoods Promotion Society is rolling-out solar powered community lift irrigation systems to provide access to irrigation to 23,580 farming families in 13 districts of the state. This paper assesses these irrigation systems using data collected from 297 farmers in the...