Documents et rapports
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India - Groundwater governance case study (anglais)
Groundwater comprises 97 percent of the worlds readily accessible freshwater and provides the rural, urban, industrial and irrigation water supply needs of 2 billion people around the world. As the more...
Type de document: Autre étude environnementale Numéro du rapport: 71727 Date du document: 1 juin 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Davis,Richard Mark,Garduno,Hector,Romani,Saleem,Sengupta, Buba,Tuinhof,Albert
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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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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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Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina : the Guarani aquifer initiative for transboundary groundwater management : A iniciativa do programa sistema aquífero guarani : rumo a gestão prática da água subterrânea em um contexto transfronteiriço (portugais)
This case profile provides a summary and vision of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded Guarani Aquifer Program for groundwater resource sustainability and environmental protection which is valued...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 38809 Date du document: 1 novembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,James Stephen,Garduno,Hector,Kemper,Karin Erika
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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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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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Argentina : integrated approaches to groundwater resource conservation in the Mendoza Aquifers : Argentina : enfoque de gestion integrada para la conservacion del agua subterranea en los Acuiferos de Mendoza (espagnol)
This case profile relates to advice provided to the DGI-Mendoza (the state water regulatory agency) in support of their technical and institutional efforts to conserve and protect critical groundwater...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 38806 Date du document: 1 juin 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,James Stephen,Garduno,Hector
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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 development in Sub-Saharan Africa - a strategic overview of key issues and major needs : Sub-Sahara Africano - explotacion del agua subterranean : un panorama estrategico de los asuntos clave y las principales necesidades (espagnol)
The purpose of this case profile is to provide an overview of 'strategic groundwater development and management concerns' in Sub-Saharan Africa. The GW-MATE has based the overview on its cumulative experience...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 38816 Date du document: 1 septembre 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster, Stephen,Tuinhof, Albert,Garduno,Hector
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Groundwater development in Sub-Saharan Africa - a strategic overview of key issues and major needs (anglais)
The purpose of this case profile is to provide an overview of 'strategic groundwater development and management concerns' in Sub-Saharan Africa. The GW-MATE has based the overview on its cumulative experience...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 38816 Date du document: 1 septembre 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster, Stephen,Tuinhof, Albert,Garduno,Hector
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Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina : the Guarani aquifer initiative for transboundary groundwater management : The Guarani aquifer initiative for transboundary groundwater management (anglais)
This case profile provides a summary and vision of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded Guarani Aquifer Program for groundwater resource sustainability and environmental protection which is valued...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 38809 Date du document: 1 septembre 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,James Stephen,Garduno,Hector,Kemper,Karin Erika
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Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina : the Guarani aquifer initiative for transboundary groundwater management : La iniciativa del acuifero Guarani para la gestion transfronteriza del agua subterranea (espagnol)
This case profile provides a summary and vision of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded Guarani Aquifer Program for groundwater resource sustainability and environmental protection which is valued...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 38809 Date du document: 1 septembre 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,James Stephen,Garduno,Hector,Kemper,Karin Erika
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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 management strategies : facets of the integrated approach (arabe)
This briefing note explains the technical strategies to confront situations of excessive, and unstable groundwater exploitation, but the institutional framework for implementation is dealt with elsewhere...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 30091 Date du document: 1 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,James Stephen,Garduno,Hector,Kemper,Karin Erika,Nanni,Marcella,Tuinhof,Albert
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Groundwater legislation and regulatory provision : from customary rules to integrated catchment planning (arabe)
The note reviews country legislation over groundwater resources, specifying many governments have introduced legislation to regulate groundwater development, and to constrain activities that might compromise...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 30092 Date du document: 1 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dumars,Charles,Foster,James Stephen,Garduno,Hector,Kemper,Karin Erika,Nanni,Marcella,Tuinhof,Albert
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Natural groundwater quality hazards : avoiding problems and formulating mitigation strategies (anglais)
The note questions how can potable, groundwater be affected by natural quality hazards, and discusses elements such as trace elements that can sometimes make it unfit of unacceptable for consumption, and...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 32196 Date du document: 1 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,James Stephen,Garduno,Hector,Kemper,Karin Erika,Koundouri,Phoebe,Nannin, Marcella,Tuinhof,Albert