E-raamat: Groundwater Allocation: Managing Growing Pressures on Quantity and Quality

Foreword; Acronyms; Executive summary; Key information and guidance for groundwater policy:Overview of groundwater resources and prevailing trends; The OECD health check for water resources allocation: Groundwater guidance; Case studies of groundwater allocation in practice: Overview of case studies; A comprehensive allocation regime in Denmark; Managing scarce groundwater resources to ensure long-term supply in Tucson, Arizona; Payments for groundwater recharge to ensure groundwater supply in Kumamoto, Japan; Enforcement challenges and efforts to implement environmental flow requirements in Mexico; Enforcement and budget challenges for groundwater reallocation in the Upper Guadiana Basin, Spain; Long term abstraction limits to conserve groundwater in Texas; The collective management approach for irrigation in France; Co-managing electricity and groundwater allocation in Gujarat, India; Flexibility in allocation through informal water trading in North China.