Groundwater Allocation : Managing Growing Pressures on Quantity and Quality.

Cover -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Table of contents -- Acronyms -- Executive summary -- Part I: Key information and guidance for groundwater policy -- Chapter 1: Overview of groundwater resources and prevailing trends -- Introduction -- A valuable natural resource under increasing pressure -- The benefits of groundwater: Estimating value -- A need for robust groundwater allocation regimes -- Distinctive features of groundwater and implications for policy design -- Uncertainty about state and use of the resource -- Physical characteristics: Stocks, flows and quality -- A need for a long term exploitation strategy considering both stocks and flows -- Often a common pool resource, difficult to exclude users from access -- Decentralised access by users on demand -- Acute governance challenges due to fragmented legislation, decentralised use and lack of data -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: The OECD health check for water resources allocation: Groundwater guidance -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Case studies of groundwater allocation in practice -- Chapter 3: Overview of case studies -- References -- Chapter 4: A comprehensive allocation regime in Denmark -- Groundwater is the major source of water supply for drinking water, agriculture and industry -- Water pricing as an instrument for demand management and financing -- Lessons learned -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Managing scarce groundwater resources to ensure long-term supply in Tucson, Arizona -- Intensive groundwater pumping has led to depletion and land subsidence -- New surface water sources were introduced to reduce the pressure on groundwater -- Storage and recovery was implemented as an alternative to direct use of CAP water -- The implementation of the S&amp -- R programme was facilitated by a number of factors -- Lessons learned -- References.

Chapter 6: Payments for groundwater recharge to ensure groundwater supply in Kumamoto, Japan -- Groundwater depletion and declining recharge in Kumamoto, Japan -- Promoting groundwater recharge through payments for ecosystem services -- An increase in groundwater recharge -- Lessons learned -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Enforcement challenges and efforts to implement environmental flow requirements in Mexico -- Over-allocation of groundwater resources has led to severe depletion -- Abstraction bans and attempts to regularise users have failed to limit groundwater pumping -- Multi-stakeholder platforms have faced numerous challenges -- A national standard for environmental flows, which still needs to be implemented -- Lessons learned -- References -- Chapter 8: Enforcement and budget challenges for groundwater reallocation in the Upper Guadiana Basin, Spain -- Groundwater depletion spurred socio-economic development, with negative environmental impacts -- Early efforts to stem groundwater depletion -- Promoting ecological restoration: The Special Plan for the Upper Guadiana Basin -- Lessons learned -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9: Long term abstraction limits to conserve groundwater in Texas -- Groundwater conservation districts as a means to control pumping -- GCDs have a positive impact on depletion, but can give rise to conflicts -- A long-term, flexible approach to limit groundwater abstraction -- The groundwater quota scheme has divergent impacts across the district -- The adjustable quota scheme offers several advantages -- Lessons learned -- References -- Chapter 10: The collective management approach for irrigation in France -- Collective management bodies as an attempt to reduce over-exploitation of groundwater -- Modalities of representation may hinder irrigating farmers' influence.

Several aspects of the allocation regime provoke debate -- Lessons learned -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11: Co-managing electricity and groundwater allocation in Gujarat, India -- Groundwater scarcity and pollution an increasing challenge in India -- Groundwater allocation challenges and policy responses: The example of Gujarat -- Flat tariffs for electricity to pump groundwater and informal water markets -- The Jyotigram Scheme, 2003-06 -- Lessons learned -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 12: Flexibility in allocation through informal water trading in North China -- Groundwater resources and use in North China -- Extensive pumping has resulted in significant groundwater depletion -- Regulation and enforcement constitute key challenges -- The privatisation of wells led to the emergence of groundwater markets -- Groundwater markets in China are localised and informal -- The groundwater markets, access to and depletion of groundwater are strongly interlinked -- Lessons learned -- References -- Glossary.

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