Community-based reverse osmosis (RO) water treatment plants provide an interim solution for producing safe drinking water for the endemic areas of chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDu) in the rural dry zone of Sri Lanka. RO-treated groundwater diminishes the progression of CKDu;...

Community-based reverse osmosis (RO) water treatment plants provide an interim solution for producing safe drinking water for the endemic areas of chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDu) in the rural dry zone of Sri Lanka. RO-treated groundwater diminishes the progression of CKDu;...

This policy brief highlights the key messages for policy makers from the World Bank report "Seeing the Invisible: A Strategic Report on Groundwater Quality" (Ravenscroft and Lytton 2022a). This report and "A Practical Manual on Groundwater Quality Monitoring" (Ravenscroft and Lytton 2022b)...

This is a companion volume to "Seeing the Invisible: A Strategic Report on Groundwater Quality," which explains why groundwater quality is so important to managers of development programs in the World Bank and elsewhere. Its purpose is to provide managers and their teams with practical guidance...

This policy brief highlights the key messages for policy makers from the World Bank report "Seeing the Invisible: A Strategic Report on Groundwater Quality" (Ravenscroft and Lytton 2022a). This report and “A Practical Manual on Groundwater Quality Monitoring" (Ravenscroft and Lytton 2022b)...

This is a companion volume to "Seeing the Invisible: A Strategic Report on Groundwater Quality," which explains why groundwater quality is so important to managers of development programs in the World Bank and elsewhere. Its purpose is to provide managers and their teams with practical guidance...

Shared groundwater resources between Mexico and the United States are facing unprecedented stressors. We reflect on how to improve water security for groundwater systems in the border region. Our reflection begins with the state of groundwater knowledge, and the challenges groundwater resources...

We study the effect of exposure to arsenic in groundwater, the main source of arsenic contamination, on a range of education outcomes among children in India. First, using a large nationally representative household survey and exploiting variation in soil textures across districts as an...

This study analyses a complex social-ecological system (SES), the case of competition for groundwater in Azraq, in the light of the 2030 Agenda. Building on the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework (IAD) and the concept of Networks of Adjacent Action Situations (NAAS) it assess the...

Interactions of surface water and groundwater (SW–GW) in hyporheic zones produce biogeochemical hotspots. However, response patterns of hyporheic groundwater to external influences remain unclear. In this study, three datasets (hydrochemistry, antibiotics, and microbiome) were collected over a...

The recovery and reuse of adsorbents is crucial for the effectiveness and sustainability of mitigation methods for groundwater pollution. Considering the difficulty in recovering powder materials and the low mechanical strength of membrane materials, we developed a sheet material with good...

Various H 2 -releasing compounds have been used to stimulate habitat microbes in chloroethene-contaminated groundwater, but the potential risk of the growth of microbes has rarely been investigated . This study investigated the effects of seven carbohydrates on trichloroethane (TCE)...

Mining and smelting of vanadium uranium ore results in the release and coexistence of vanadium and uranium in the environment, raising severe risks. The feasibility of synchronous removal of pentavalent vanadium (V(V)) and hexavalent uranium (U(VI)) was investigated in mixotrophic column reactor...

This paper examines the unintended consequences of a policy aimed at improving the groundwater level on crop residue burning in India. The Preservation of Subsoil Water Act, 2009 implemented in two Indian states bans the transplantation of paddy before mid-June to preserve groundwater....

Quantification of evapotranspiration (ET) is critical to sustainable management of irrigated agriculture. To date, attempts at measuring regional ET in arid and semi-arid regions with complex surface characteristics have been largely unsuccessful. In this study, we proposed a remote sensing data...

Radiocarbon ( 14 C) ages of groundwater from several aquifers of the arid Jaisalmer District, Northwestern India (part of the Thar Desert) were investigated to reconstruct the hydrological history of the Thar Desert. The Thar Desert and its surrounding regions have been extensively studied for...

Recently, the subsoils of ephemeral stream floodplains in the northern Chihuahuan Desert were discovered to contain large naturally occurring NO3- reservoirs (~38,000 kg NO3-N/ha). These reservoirs may be mobilized through land use change or natural stream channel migration. This makes...

CONTEXT Since the complexity of soil water distribution, accurate prediction of wetting pattern is not easily accessible and this has led to a inefficiency in some proposed models in the literature. These models do not consider the hydraulic characteristics of the irrigation system and are...

The implementation of effective resource management policies critically depends on accurate estimates of the price elasticity of resource demand. In the case of groundwater, previous research estimating well-level groundwater demand has largely ignored the importance of well yield, which is a...

Prolonged droughts and depleting groundwater resources have been a serious challenge to the economy of province of Balochistan, Pakistan. Proliferation of tube-wells incentivized by government policy interventions and continued subsidy for electric tube-wells for agriculture and choice for...

We investigate the strategic nature of farmers’ groundwater usage with a rich dataset from the American Midwest. We propose a new revealed preference test for the groundwater interaction as a dynamic game. We reject a view of groundwater usage decisions as strategic substitutes in favor of...

We test whether the decisions in a common-pool resource game are better modeled game-theoretically as strategic substitutes or complements using an individual-level dataset of groundwater usage that accounts for 3% of US irrigated agriculture. We find support for strategic complements,...

Over the last decade, transboundary aquifers traversing the Mexico‐Texas border have generated growing interest of federal institutions on the Mexico side and state and federal institutions on the Texas side. Notwithstanding this, binational efforts to understand, assess, and manage shared...

Involving in the services infrastructure engineering on both design and project management within the public domain is another interesting topic to discuss, which is the author's philosophical adventure during the stint of development in the country for more than decades. However, infrastructure...

Bangladesh, a small country with a large population, has achieved near self-sufficiency in food at a huge cost to groundwater resources. Indiscriminate installation of deep and shallow tubewells to lift groundwater for irrigated agriculture is posing a serious threat to this precious resource....

This study presents the impact of surface and ground water quality on the environment in Ebocha-Obrikom oil and gas producing area of Rivers State, Nigeria. Specifically, the study examined the relationship between the physico-chemical parameters, determine the quality of surface and ground...

Compliance and enforcement is a major issue for groundwater management. Yet it remains untheorised and underexamined. This chapter drills down into Australian compliance and enforcement efforts, which have been on a significant reform journey over the last two decades, oscillating between being...

Integration of advanced irrigation systems and technology is essential to improve crop water productivity and yields, especially in developing countries. This study aims at investigating the effects of adopting a drip irrigation system combined with hand-dug wells on crop water productivity and...

This report summarizes the main results from a choice experiment survey addressing peoples’ willingness to pay (WTP) for improvements in surface water quality as well as groundwater quality. A particular novel focus is on estimating the extent to which WTP is impacted by the time lags and...

Diese Veröffentlichung stellt eine von sechs Analysen sektorenübergreifender Herausforderungen für Wasser-Governance dar, die als Teil des STEER-Forschungsprojekts durchgeführt wurden und deren Resultate in separaten Analysen und Stellungnahmen vorliegen. Wenngleich die Land- und...

This report presents the findings of a diagnostic study examining pathways and options for strengthening the governance of South Asia's groundwater resources in the face of climate change and increasing reliance on the resource by dependent communities, particularly during times of drought. This...

Recently a new simulation-based optimization benchmark of groundwater contaminant source localization problems has been introduced to the hydrogeological science community. Given information on contaminant concentration levels at each monitoring well and each time step, its objective is to...

For many years now, nitrate concentrations have exceeded the trigger value of 50 milligrams per liter at nearly one-fifth of the groundwater sampling sites in Germany. Apart from impairing the ecosystem by, for example, causing eutrophication of water bodies, nitrate-polluted drinking water also...

Located in the semi-arid and water-scarce area, Comarca Lagunera is one of the main agricultural and dairy products supplying regions in Mexico. As a consequence of the intensive exploitation of groundwater resources for irrigating purposes over one century, the water table has declined up to...

Monterrey procures about 40% of its water supply from groundwater resources, considering several aquifers below and nearby. This city meets semiarid climate conditions with highly variable precipitation rates. The increasing demand for groundwater during drought conditions can deteriorate water...