Modes and approaches of groundwater governance: A survey of lessons learned from selected cases across the globe

RG Varady, AA Zuniga-Teran, AK Gerlak, SB Megdal - Water, 2016 - mdpi.com
The crucial role of groundwater and the centrality of water governance in accommodating
growing water demands sustainably are becoming well recognized. We review 10 case …

Conjunctive management of surface and groundwater in transboundary watercourses: A first assessment

J Lautze, B Holmatov, D Saruchera, KG Villholth - Water policy, 2018 - iwaponline.com
Cooperative management of transboundary river basins is widely recognized as important.
Emphasis on joint management of shared aquifers has also grown in recent years. Perhaps …

Groundwater option in raw water source selection and related policy changes in Finland

PS Juuti, RP Juuti, TS Katko… - Public Works …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Since the late 1800s, the source selection–surface water or groundwater–for urban water
supply has faced several policy changes in Finland. First, groundwater was favored. In 1920 …

Transboundary groundwater governance in the Guarani Aquifer System: Reflections from a survey of global and regional experts

ZP Sugg, RG Varady, AK Gerlak, R de Grenade - Groundwater, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
To understand transboundary groundwater governance in the South American Guarani
Aquifer System, we surveyed global and regional experts about the region's groundwater …

Assessing decentralized groundwater governance performance in the lower Mekong region: The case of Khon Kaen province, Thailand

TPL Nguyen, P Muenratch, S Shrestha… - Groundwater for …, 2024 - Elsevier
Decentralized groundwater management has been implemented in various forms in the
Lower Mekong Region (LMR) aiming to improve the sustainability and equity of groundwater …

Groundwater modelling approach for efficient governance of transboundary aquifers with Kuwait

A Aliewi, M Al-Rashed - Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2022 - Springer
The aim of this study is to investigate through groundwater modelling the need for effective
governance principles to regulate current and future utilization schemes for a transboundary …

Challenges and opportunities from a paradigm shift in groundwater governance

HC Simpson, RC De Loe - Hydrogeology Journal, 2020 - Springer
Historically, groundwater policy development and implementation have been guided almost
exclusively by expert science and traditional risk analysis. This approach has worked well …

How best to incorporate conjunctive water management into international water law: legal amendment, instrument coupling, or new protocol adoption?

IA Ibrahim, J Lautze - International Environmental Agreements: Politics …, 2023 - Springer
International water conventions—eg, the 1997 United Nations Convention on the Non-
Navigational Uses of International Watercourses—include positive but insufficient focus on …

[HTML][HTML] Can Enhanced Information Systems and Citizen Science Improve Groundwater Governance? Lessons from Morocco, Portugal and Spain

C Sanchis-Ibor, Z Bouzidi, MP Varanda, E López-Pérez… - Water, 2024 - mdpi.com
New information and communication technologies have a significant potential to increase
the transparency of aquifer management and improve groundwater governance. This …

Groundwater governance in the anthropocene: a close look at Costa Rica

G Cuadrado-Quesada, C Holley, J Gupta - Water Policy, 2018 - iwaponline.com
The Anthropocene is an era in which humans have become the primary driver of planetary
systems, not least the global hydrological cycle. This is posing significant challenges for …