Intensive use of groundwater has resolved the demand for
drinking water and, through irrigation, has contributed to the
eradication of malnourishment in many developing countries. The
spectacular worldwide increase in groundwater use in the last
decades, especially in arid and semi-arid regions, has been a
silent revolution carried out by millions of small farmers. In some
instances, groundwater abstraction has caused problems of quality
degradation, excessive drawdown of groundwater levels, land
subsidence, reduction of spring and baseflows or degradation of
groundwater-dependent ecosystems. Most of these problems could be
anticipated, mitigated, or even avoided with more active water
agencies, adequate regulations and users participation in
management. Groundwater Intensive Use contains a selection of
papers presented at a symposium held in December 2002 in Valencia,
Spain. It constitutes a step forward in creating a greater
worldwide awareness of the relevance of groundwater in water
resources policy. The book presents new ideas and accounts of
recent advances in technical, economic, legal, administrative and
political issues. It addresses groundwater development to
ecosystems sustainability, through different or complementary
approaches. A wide series of case studies from North and South
America, Europe, South Asia and North and Sub-Saharan Africa cover
the various issues. These case studies represent countries with a
wide diversity of social circumstances, from areas in which
development is emerging, to communities with a long history of
successful groundwater use. "
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