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1 Clarke, R.; Lawrence, A.; Foster, S.. 1996. Groundwater: A threatened resource. UNEP: Nairobi, Kenya. 36p. (UNEP environment library no.15)
Groundwater ; Aquifers ; Hydrology ; Water quality ; Water use ; Water pollution ; Pollution control ; Groundwater extraction ; Assessment ; Policy
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.6.3 G000 CLA Record No: H019942)
2 Foster, S.. 1996. Ground for concern. Our Planet, 8(3):13-14.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 4435 Record No: H020064)
3 Foster, S.. 1998. Groundwater: Assessing vulnerability and promoting protection of a threatened resource. In Stockholm International Water Institute, Proceedings, Stockholm Water Symposium, Stockholm, August 10-13, 1998: Water - The key to socio-economic development and quality of life. Stockholm, Sweden: SIWI. pp.79-90.
Groundwater management ; Groundwater extraction ; Water quality ; Water pollution ; Aquifers ; Assessment
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 STO Record No: H023911)
4 Foster, S.; Chilton, J.; Moench, M.; Cardy, F.; Schiffler, M. 2000. Groundwater in rural development: Facing the challenges of supply and resource sustainability. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. xvi, 98p. (World Bank technical paper no.463)
Groundwater management ; Groundwater development ; Rural development ; Livestock ; Irrigated farming ; Agricultural development ; Water quality ; Water supply ; Wells ; Construction ; Sustainability ; Water market ; Water pollution ; Aquifers ; Artificial recharge ; Nitrogen ; Leaching ; Pesticide residues ; Irrigation water ; Wastewater ; Water reuse ; Water user associations ; Economic aspects / Africa South of Sahara / Zimbabwe / Pakistan / Bangladesh / India / Mexico / Jordan / Barbados / Nicaragua / Yemen / Indus basin / Managua
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.6.3 G000 FOS Record No: H026002)
5 Foster, S.. 1999. Essential concepts for groundwater regulators. In Salman, S. M. A. (Ed.), Groundwater: Legal and policy perspectives: Proceedings of a World Bank Seminar. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. pp.15-29.
Groundwater management ; Aquifers ; Recharge ; Water pollution ; Groundwater extraction ; Wells ; Measurement ; Water quality ; Pollution control
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.6.3 G000 SAL Record No: H026598)
6 Foster, S.; Lawrence, A.; Morris, B. 1998. Groundwater in urban development: Assessing management need and formulating policy strategies. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. xiv, 55p. (World bank technical paper no.390)
Groundwater ; Water supply ; Developing countries ; Water resources management ; Water quality ; Water policy
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 5891 Record No: H028971)
7 Foster, S.. 1999. The interdependence of groundwater and urbanization. In SIWI, Urban stability through integrated water-related management: proceedings - The 9th Stockholm Water Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden, 9-12 August 1999. Stockholm, Sweden: SIWI. pp.125-137.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 SIW Record No: H033456)
8 Nanni, M.; Foster, S.. 2005. Groundwater resources: Shaping legislation in harmony with real issues and sound concepts. Water Policy, 7(5):543-550.
Aquifers ; Recharge ; Groundwater ; Monitoring ; Water quality ; Pollution control ; Land use ; Water law
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H037797)
9 Foster, S.; Shah, Tushaar. 2012. Groundwater resources and irrigated agriculture: making a beneficial relation more sustainable. Stockholm, Sweden: Global Water Partnership (GWP) Secretariat. 19p. (GWP Perspectives Paper 4)
Irrigated farming ; Groundwater management ; Community involvement ; Groundwater irrigation ; Groundwater recharge ; Water quality ; Water storage ; Resource exploitation ; Water use ; Conjunctive use ; Canals ; Surveys ; Aquifers
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045034)
http://www.gwp.org/Global/The%20Challenge/Resource%20material/Perspectives%20Paper_Groundwater_web.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H045034.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H045034.pdf
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Globally, irrigated agriculture is the largest abstractor and predominant consumer of groundwater resources, with important groundwater-dependent agroeconomies having widely evolved. But in many arid and droughtprone areas, unconstrained use is causing serious aquifer depletion and environmental degradation, and cropping practices also exert a major influence on groundwater recharge and quality. The interactions between agricultural irrigation, surface water and groundwater resources are often very close – such that active cross-sector dialogue and integrated vision are also needed to promote sustainable land and water management. Clear policy guidance and focused local action are required to make better use of groundwater reserves for drought mitigation and climatechange adaptation. To be effective policies must be tailored to local hydrogeological settings and agroeconomic realities, and their implementation will require appropriate ‘institutional arrangements’ (with a clear focal point and statutory power for groundwater management), full involvement of the farming community and more alignment of agricultural development goals with groundwater availability.
10 Foster, S.; Cherlet, J. 2014. The links between land use and groundwater: governance provisions and management strategies to secure a ‘sustainable harvest’ Stockholm, Sweden: Global Water Partnership (GWP) Secretariat. 20p. (GWP Perspectives Paper 6)
Land management ; Land use ; Groundwater management ; Water resources ; Water quality ; Groundwater recharge ; Aquifers ; Water governance ; Salinity ; Waterlogging ; Pollution control ; Sustainability ; Regulations ; Land ownership ; Incentives ; Policy ; Strategies
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047315)
http://www.gwp.org/Global/ToolBox/Publications/Perspective%20Papers/perspective_paper_landuse_and_groundwater_no6_english.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047315.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047315.pdf
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Groundwater is an increasingly important resource for urban and rural potable water supply, irrigated agriculture, and industry, in addition to its natural environmental role of sustaining river flows and aquatic ecosystems. But major changes in land use that impact groundwater are taking place, as a consequence of population growth, increasing and changing food demands, and expanding biofuel cultivation. The link between land use and groundwater has long been recognised, but has not been widely translated into integrated policies and practices. This paper argues that a common understanding of groundwater–land and land–groundwater interaction is needed to facilitate cross-sector dialogue on governance needs and management approaches, targeted at sustaining water resources and enhancing land productivity. Sharply focused land-use management measures can produce significant groundwater quality and quantity benefits at relatively modest cost, and improving integrated governance will be crucial to ensuring an acceptable harvest of both food and groundwater from the available land. This paper outlines available technical tools to identify priority land areas for groundwater protection and appraises institutional and policy provisions to allow their application.
11 Foster, S.; Chilton, J. 2018. Groundwater management: policy principles and planning practices. In Villholth Karen G.; Lopez-Gunn, E.; Conti, K.; Garrido, A.; Van Der Gun, J. (Eds.). Advances in groundwater governance. Leiden, Netherlands: CRC Press. pp.73-95.
Groundwater management ; Water policy ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water storage ; Water law ; Water quality ; Water pollution ; Surface water ; Irrigation water ; Planning ; Best practices ; Stakeholders ; Economic aspects ; Aquifers ; Flow discharge ; Resource management ; Ecosystems ; Land use ; Sanitation
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H048542)
12 Foster, S.; Bousquet, A.; Furey, S. 2018. Urban groundwater use in tropical Africa - a key factor in enhancing water security? Water Policy, 20(5):982-994. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2018.056]
Groundwater ; Water use ; Water security ; Urban areas ; Water resources ; Water availability ; Water supply ; Boreholes ; Tropical zones ; Urbanization ; Water policy ; Databases ; Evaluation / Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048953)
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A regional scoping study has reviewed the limited data on groundwater use for 10 cities in Tropical Africa. In those cities where the water utility has been able to develop groundwater rationally, the public water-supply usually offers a better service at lower cost by enabling phased investment and avoiding advanced treatment, and offers greater water-source security in drought and from pollution. Urban dwellers obtain water from multiple sources, according to availability and affordability. Among the more affluent, private water-supply boreholes are increasingly used to improve security and reduce cost but in the absence of international charity finance groundwater access is beyond the financial reach of the urban poor, except where the water table is shallow allowing the use of low-cost dugwells. The way forward must be to integrate more effectively utility and private investments, and piped and non-piped solutions, for urban water-supply provision, and for water utilities to establish low-income (‘pro-poor’) policy and technical units to pursue ways of supporting alternative water-supply provision, including advisory services and regulatory functions (where appropriate) for private borehole and dugwell use. To facilitate this, water utilities will need to partner with resource regulators and knowledge centres, which may require modifications to their mandate.
13 Bogardi, J. J.; Bharati, Luna; Foster, S.; Dhaubanjar, S. 2021. Water and its management: dependence, linkages and challenges. In Bogardi, J. J.; Gupta, J.; Nandalal, K. D. W.; Salame, L.; van Nooijen, R. R. P.; Kumar, N.; Tingsanchali, T.; Bhaduri, A.; Kolechkina, A. G. (Eds.). Handbook of water resources management: discourses, concepts and examples. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. pp.41-85. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60147-8_3]
Water resource management ; Surface water ; Groundwater ; Hydrological cycle ; Water balance ; Water availability ; Water demand ; Aquifers ; Water quality ; Water governance ; Water use ; Climate change ; Modelling
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050612)
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This chapter highlights the key dependences, linkages and challenges of water resources management. (Many of these issues discussed are revisited and illustrated in the following chapters.) The first part introduces surface and groundwater management in the terrestrial part of the water cycle. Comprehensive presentations of key hydrological phenomena and processes, monitoring, assessment and control are followed by overviews of dependences, linkages and challenges. The manifold facets of intensive human/resource interaction and inherent threats to the resources base are exposed. Both sections present examples illustrating differing contexts and options for solution. The second part summarizes the main drivers and challenges of contemporary water resources management and governance. It provides a critical overview of different water discourses in recent decades. The role of benchmark and recurring water events, their declarations and intergovernmental resolutions are analyzed, and the key concepts and methods of implementation are discussed.
14 Foster, S.. 2022. The key role for groundwater in urban water-supply security. Journal of Water and Climate Change, 13(10):3566-3577. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2022.174]
Groundwater management ; Water supply ; Urban areas ; Water security ; Water scarcity ; Climate change adaptation ; Vulnerability ; Water use ; Surface water ; Water resources ; Monitoring ; Aquifers
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051473)
https://iwaponline.com/jwcc/article-pdf/13/10/3566/1124523/jwc0133566.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051473.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051473.pdf
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Groundwater provides nearly 50% of urban water supply, and probably a higher proportion at times of water stress. Groundwater systems generally exhibit exceptional resilience to drought and are well positioned to enhance water security for a wide range of users, provided they are adequately managed and protected to play the role sustainably. The serious urban water-supply crises of recent years, such as those experienced by Cape Town, Sao Paulo, and Chennai, have highlighted the vulnerability of major cities to surface water drought and a failure to incorporate groundwater as a key element to enhance water-supply security. But some progress has been made worldwide in adaptive sustainable management of groundwater for urban water supply, and this is illustrated by the cases of Hamburg, Lima, and Bangkok.
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