Documents et rapports
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Sustainable groundwater irrigation : approaches to reconciling demand with resources (anglais)
The aim of this paper is to provide a strategic overview of a decade of experience in supporting public administrations in their efforts to confront excessive groundwater resource exploitation for agricultural...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 59700 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Garduno,Hector,Foster,Stephen
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Urban groundwater use policy : balancing the benefits and risks in developing nations (anglais)
This overview provides a strategic assessment of trends in the public and private use of groundwater for urban water-supply in developing cities - and an analysis of its benefits to users and the broader...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 57557 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,Stephen,Hirata,Ricardo,Misra,Smita,Garduno,Hector
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Groundwater governance : conceptual framework for assessment of provisions and needs (anglais)
The aim of this overview is to provide a concise outline guide to governance provisions as they relate to the groundwater resource base. It deals with the assessment of current governance status and identification...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 57555 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,Stephen,Garduno,Hector,Tuinhof,Albert,Tovey,Catherine Signe
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Groundwater management and protection : progress through World Bank operations and beyond during 2000-10 (anglais)
The initiative to establish the World Bank-Groundwater Management Advisory Team (GW-MATE) was taken in September 2000, following dialogue at the Second World Water Forum (the Hague : March 2000) on the...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 71749 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,Stephen,Tovey,Catherine Signe,Tyson,Gillian
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Conjunctive use of groundwater and surface water : from spontaneous coping strategy to adaptive resource management (anglais)
The aim of this overview is to provide a strategic guide to current practices of conjunctive use of groundwater and surface water resources for both irrigated agriculture and urban water-supply in the...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 57556 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,Stephen,Van Steenbergen,Franciscus Wilhelmus Maria,Zuleta,Javier,Garduno,Hector
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Groundwater resource accounting : critical for effective management in a 'changing world' (anglais)
Groundwater resource accounting provides the essential technical foundation for making sound management decisions. While normally expressed in terms of the 'groundwater balance' of a specified 'groundwater...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 51785 Date du document: 1 octobre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,Stephen,Perry,Christopher J.,Hirata,Ricardo,Garduno,Hector
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India - Lucknow city : ground water resource use and strategic planning needs (anglais)
This case profile comprises a diagnosis of the groundwater resource situation in Lucknow city, the Uttar Pradesh (UP) state capital, which can be regarded in many ways as indicative of the position of...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 51828 Date du document: 1 avril 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,Stephen,Choudhary,Neel Kant
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Addressing groundwater depletion through community-based management actions in the weathered granitic basement aquifer of drought-prone Andhra Pradesh - India (anglais)
Some 85 percent of the land-area of Andhra Pradesh is underlain by the weathered granitic basement 'hard-rock' aquifer system, which forms extensive but shallow (low-storage and easily depleted) groundwater...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 51824 Date du document: 1 avril 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Garduno,Hector,Foster,Stephen,Raj, Pradeep,Van Steenbergen,Franciscus Wilhelmus Maria
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India - A hydrogeologic and socioeconomic evaluation of community-based groundwater resource management : the case of Hivre Bazaar in Maharashtra (anglais)
In the hard-rock terrains of peninsular India groundwater resource management cannot be generally achieved through policy and regulatory actions by government, given the extremely large numbers of individually...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 51827 Date du document: 1 février 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,Stephen, Mandavkar, Yugandhar, Shrikant, Limaye, Msangi, Siwa
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Protecting the quality of public water-supply sources : a guide for water utilities, municipal authorities, and environmental agencies (anglais)
Water-supply quality is too often taken for granted. Because we can see rivers and streams, they command most attention when talk turns to water quality but subsurface aquifers are every bit as important...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 47361 Date du document: 1 janvier 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,Stephen, Hirata, Richardo , Gomes, Daniel ,D'Elia,Monica,Paris,Marta
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Groundwater use in Aurangabad : a survey and analysis of social significance and policy implications for a medium-sized Indian city (anglais)
Aurangabad city, located in the heart of the drought-prone interior of Maharashtra state, is one of the major urban centres of the Deccan sub-region. It is an important example of a progressive fast-growing...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 51826 Date du document: 1 novembre 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,Stephen, Mandavkar, Yugandhar
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Groundwater in urban development : assessing management needs and formulating policy strategies (anglais)
People have clustered at the water's edge throughout civilization for the most fundamental of reasons: without water there is no life. Every major city in the world has a body of water or aquifer nearby...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 46470 Date du document: 1 octobre 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,Stephen,Lawrence, Adrian,Morris, Brian
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Controlling groundwater abstraction and related environmental degradation in metropolitan Bangkok - Thailand (anglais)
This case history is presented as an important example of progressive, adaptive, and eventually successful, control of groundwater abstraction using a regulatory approach and economic tools when faced...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 51825 Date du document: 1 juin 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Buapeng, Somkid,Foster,Stephen
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Economic impacts of sanitation in Cambodia : a five-country study conducted in Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, the Philippines, and Vietnam under the Economics of Sanitation Initiative (ESI) (Vol. 2 of 2) : Main report (anglais)
The sanitation impact study, initiated by the World Bank water and sanitation program, aims to generate sound evidence on the negative impacts of existing sanitation and hygiene conditions and the potential...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 44295 Date du document: 1 février 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,Stephen,Garduno,Hector,Kemper,Karin Erika,Koundouri,Phoebe,Nanni,Marcella,Tuinhof,Albert
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Economic impacts of sanitation in Cambodia : a five-country study conducted in Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, the Philippines, and Vietnam under the Economics of Sanitation Initiative (ESI) (Vol. 1 of 2) : Executive summary (anglais)
The sanitation impact study, initiated by the World Bank water and sanitation program, aims to generate sound evidence on the negative impacts of existing sanitation and hygiene conditions and the potential...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 44295 Date du document: 1 janvier 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,Stephen,Garduno,Hector,Kemper,Karin Erika,Koundouri,Phoebe,Nanni,Marcella,Tuinhof,Albert
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Groundwater dependent ecosystems : the challenge of balanced assessment and adequate conservation : Los ecosistemas dependientes del agua subterranean : procedimientos de caracterizacion y medidas de conservacion (espagnol)
Groundwater plays an integral role in sustaining certain types of aquatic, terrestrial and coastal ecosystems, and the associated landscapes, both in humid and arid climatic regions. It is thus a key factor...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 44296 Date du document: 15 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,Stephen,Koundouri,Phoebe,Tuinhof,Albert,Kemper,Karin Erika,Nanni,Marcella,Garduno,Hector
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Groundwater dependent ecosystems : the challenge of balanced assessment and adequate conservation (anglais)
Groundwater plays an integral role in sustaining certain types of aquatic, terrestrial and coastal ecosystems, and the associated landscapes, both in humid and arid climatic regions. It is thus a key factor...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 44296 Date du document: 15 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,Stephen,Koundouri,Phoebe,Tuinhof,Albert,Kemper,Karin Erika,Nanni,Marcella,Garduno,Hector
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Groundwater resource development in minor aquifers : management strategy for village and small town water supply (anglais)
This briefing note deals primarily with issues affecting initial development, and subsequent expansion of groundwater supplies, in areas underlain by minor aquifers, whose yield to water wells is both...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 44294 Date du document: 1 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,Stephen,Tuinhof,Albert,Garduno,Hector,Kemper,Karin Erika,Koundouri,Phoebe,Nanni,Marcella
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Groundwater dimensions of national water resource and river basin planning : promoting an integrated strategy : El agua subterranea en la planificacion hidrica nacional y de cuencas - promover una estrategia integral (espagnol)
This briefing note deals primarily with promoting an integrated approach to water resource planning whereby groundwater is incorporated into the overall national strategy for water conservation. Groundwater...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 38818 Date du document: 1 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Garduno,Hector,Foster,Stephen,Nanni,Marcella,Kemper,Karin Erika,Tuinhof,Albert,Koundouri,Phoebe
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Series overview : Panorama de la serie (espagnol)
The series is intended to give a concise introduction to the theory and practice of groundwater resource management and protection (a neglected subject) in a convenient and accessible format. Thus each...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 44292 Date du document: 1 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,Stephen,Kemper,Karin Erika