Stockholm International Water Institute » groundwater http://www.siwi.org Water Wise World Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:20:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Innovations in Groundwater Governance in the Mena Region http://www.siwi.org/publication/innovations-in-groundwater-governance-in-the-mena-region/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/innovations-in-groundwater-governance-in-the-mena-region/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:38:10 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/innovations-in-groundwater-governance-in-the-mena-region/ This report is based on a seminar on innovations in groundwater governance in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) Region during the World Water Week in Stockholm 2008. It demonstrated that there are lots of innovative activities being tried and tested in the region, for example in managing groundwater better at the local, national and cross border level, increasing the efficiency of use, creating new water, monitoring, decision support systems, and building management and business skills.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/innovations-in-groundwater-governance-in-the-mena-region/feed/ 0 Taking from the Top: Looking Upstream in India http://www.siwi.org/publication/taking-from-the-top-looking-upstream-in-india/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/taking-from-the-top-looking-upstream-in-india/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:37:48 +0000 Nora http://www.siwi.org/publication/taking-from-the-top-looking-upstream-in-india/ River basin closure has developed into a sizeable challenge of extreme importance. Over the past 50 years, many of the river basins that support the world’s breadbaskets have already or will soon become closed basins. Like the basins themselves, the world’s eye on this critical issue seems to be closing at a time when it can least afford to look away. Applying the findings of a groundwater use case from India, this article sheds some light on this blind spot in water resource management to see what is going on downstream in the great sub-continent.

Published in Water Front Magazine No. 4 2007.

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