Description
Groundwater is invisible, but its impact is visible everywhere. Everything around us relies on groundwater, our drinking water and sanitation, our food supply and our natural environment. Yet because it is invisible, information, management and governance of groundwater is often poor and inadequate. This book contributes to UN Water Groundwater year (2022), and to the effort of “making the invisible, visible”. Through worldwide case studies ranging from the Americas (California, Brazil), to Asia (India, Iran, Lao PDR, Nepal), Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, South Africa) and the MENA region (Lebanon, Morocco, Yemen), including cases of transboundary aquifers, the chapters in this edited volume reflect important recent advances in interdisciplinary knowledge on the governance, management, practice and science-policy interfaces of groundwater.
An insightful resource for researchers and planners in the field of environmental policies, water laws, climate change and groundwater governance, this book comes with a new Introduction. The other chapters were originally published in Water International.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Raya M. Stephan, James Nickum, Philippus Wester
Part 1: Groundwater institutions
1. From an open-access to a state-controlled resource: the case of groundwater in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Vishnu Prasad Pandey and Futaba Kazama
2. Pathways for effective groundwater governance in the least-developed-country context of the Lao PDR
Paul Pavelic, Ounakone Xayviliya and Oualaphone Ongkeo
3. Using backcasting to explore ways to improve the national water department’s contribution to good groundwater governance in South Africa
P. Seward, Y. Xu and A. Turton
4. Groundwater governance through institutional bricolage? Participation in Morocco’s Chtouka aquifer contract
Annabelle Houdret and Rebecca Heinz
Part 2: Groundwater management
5. Exploring the future impacts of urbanization and climate change on groundwater in Arusha, Tanzania
Tunde Olarinoye, Jan Willem Foppen, William Veerbeek, Tlhoriso Morienyane and Hans Komakech
6. Impact of land use and occupation on potential groundwater recharge in a Brazilian savannah watershed
Arnaldo José Cambraia Neto and Lineu Neiva Rodrigues
7. Problems and promise of managed recharge in karstified aquifers: the example of Lebanon
Wisam M. Khadra and Pieter J. Stuyfzand
8. A multifaceted quantitative index for sustainability assessment of groundwater management: application for aquifers around Iran
Bahador Zarei, Esmaeel Parizi, Seiyed Mossa Hosseini and Behzad Ataie Ashtiani
Part 3: Groundwater users
9. Whither collective action? Upscaling collective actions, politics and basin management in the process of ‘legitimizing’ an informal groundwater economy
Marta Rica, Aurélien Dumont, Fermín Villarroya and Elena López-Gunn
10. Participatory rural appraisal to assess groundwater resources in Al-Mujaylis, Tihama Coastal Plain, Yemen
Wahib Al-Qubatee, Henk Ritzema, Adel Al-Weshali, Frank van Steenbergen and Petra J. G. J. Hellegers
11. Federal reserved rights and California's Groundwater Management Act: resolving groundwater rights tensions in California and the western United States
Stefanie Viktoria Caroline Schulte
Part 4: Groundwater for irrigation
12. Learning from the past to build the future governance of groundwater use in agriculture
Olivier Petit, Aurélien Dumont, Stéphanie Leyronas, Quentin Ballin, Sami Bouarfa, Nicolas Faysse, Marcel Kuper, François Molle, Charlotte Alcazar, Emmanuel Durand, Ridha Ghoudi, Aline Hubert, Selin Le Visage, Imane Messaoudi, Marielle Montginoul, Seyni Ndao, Audrey Richard Ferroudji, Jean-Daniel Rinaudo, Julie Trottier, Olivia Aubriot, Mohamed Elloumi, Marc Boisson, Rhoda Fofack-Garcia, Frédéric Maurel, Dominique Rojat, Bruno Romagny and Emmanuelle Salgues
13. Drivers of groundwater utilization in water-limited rice production systems in Nepal
Anton Urfels, Andrew J. McDonald, Timothy J. Krupnik and Pieter R. van Oel
14. Groundwater policies and irrigation development: a study of West Bengal, India, 1980–2016
Tapas Singh Modak
Part 5: Transboundary aquifers
15. Transboundary groundwater governance in the Guarani Aquifer System: reflections from a survey of global and regional experts
Zachary P. Sugg, Robert G. Varady, Andrea K. Gerlak, and Rafael de Grenade
16. A methodology to identify vulnerable transboundary aquifer hotspots for multi-scale groundwater management
Christina M. Fraser, Robert M. Kalin, Modesta Kanjaye and Zione Uka
17. Binational reflections on pathways to groundwater security in the Mexico–United States borderlands
Rosario Sanchez, José Agustin Breña-Naranjo, Alfonso Rivera, Randall T. Hanson, Antonio Hernández-Espriú, Rick J. Hogeboom, Anita Milman, Jude A. Benavides, Adrian Pedrozo-Acuña, Julio Cesar Soriano-Monzalvo, Sharon B. Megdal, Gabriel Eckstein and Laura Rodriguez
18. A critical review of the transboundary aquifers in South-Eastern Europe and new insights from the EU’s water framework directive implementation process
Charalampos Skoulikaris, Jacques Ganoulis and Alice Aureli
