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 …

Groundwater currently provides 98 percent of all the drinking water supply in Bangladesh. Groundwater is found …. Yet, no national-scale, multi-hazard groundwater risk maps currently exist enabling water resource managers and policy …-hazard groundwater risk maps reveal areas and exposure of population groups to water risks posed by arsenic and salinity contamination …

It is now widely accepted that groundwater, though not as visible as surface water, is ubiquitous in the global … whole contain excellent quality water, there has been poor resource management because economic externalities have been … and environmental-social conflicts. As a result, the beneficial use of groundwater should be more particularly subjected …

undergird heavy demand of water supply for livelihoods, industrial and agricultural purposes. Considering these, the groundwater …Water is regarded as indefeasible necessity of human civilization. In the South Asia region, the groundwater resource … as disproportionate availability of surface water supply, the groundwater resource is veered into vital source to …

national highways on ground water levels in a small agricultural county in the North China Plain - a region that produces most … devote more acreage to crops that are water intensive. We then use a unique GIS-referenced dataset of all the 12,160 tube …. In addition, there is greater depletion of the groundwater in wells near the two highways relative to wells located …

environmental water users compete for shrinking groundwater resources. The core of the conflict lies between a heterogeneous group … of farmers, who use groundwater for irrigation agriculture supported by a strong political lobby, and the water …This study analyses a complex social-ecological system (SES), the case of competition for groundwater in Azraq, in the …