Development of an Integrated Capacity Building Framework for Building Spatial Data Infrastructure for Integrated Groundwater Governance and Management in India : Lessons from Australia

The balancing act between groundwater over exploitation and environmental sustainability world over has led to number of research studies, which have brought out the requirements for bridging the gaps in understanding between groundwater users, groundwater scientists and manager. Recent studies have also made it clear the overriding requirement of capacity building at all levels in society to enhance the understanding, sensitivity and commitment towards improving the sustainable use of groundwater in Asia and other regions. With the emergence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Its application for development purposes world over, information has become an important input for capacity building. Recent development in this direction Is the Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), which is defined as the collection of technologies, policies and institutional arrangement ultra facilitate the availability of and access to spatial data. In view of the above requirement. an attempt has been modem the current study to develop an integrated Capacity Building Framework for Groundwater Spatial Data Infrastructure development based on the lessons learnt from a country that has reformed the ground water governance, developing water data Infrastructure and implementing the same for sustainable development