Groundwater forms the basis for millions of rural and urban livelihoods around the world.
Building on insights from the theory of access, in this article we present how groundwater …

Reliable accounting of agricultural water use is critical for sustainable water management.
However, the majority of agricultural water use is not monitored, with limited metering of …

Groundwater is a significant source of freshwater supply globally. State-mandated
groundwater regulatory frameworks are often pervasive and have failed to reap tangible …

Irrigation is the largest human intervention in the water cycle that can modulate climate
extremes, yet irrigation water use (IWU) remains largely unknown in most regions …

While the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted in 2015, establishes an
ambitious set of goals, targets and indicators for supporting global sustainability, greater …

Two contemporary theories of river basin management are compared. One is
centralised'regulatory river basin management'with an apex authority that seeks hydrometric …

Three interlinked processes drive groundwater balances in diverse regions globally:(1)
groundwater‐irrigation intensification,(2) electrical energy supply for agriculture, and (3) …

Around the world it has proven very difficult to develop policies and interventions that ensure
socio-environmentally sustainable groundwater use and exploitation. In the state of …

The evolution of the water-table in the Cuenca Alta del Río Laja aquifer (CARL aquifer) was
investigated using Empirical Bayesian Kriging (EBK) utilizing ArcGIS® and the Curve-Fit tool …

Cities face substantial water governance challenges, even more so when their activities are
water-intensive, as global tourism is. As the lower-most level of government, municipalities …