Groundwater is playing an increasingly important role in domestic, industrial and agricultural water supply. With the advent of the tube well and driven by the rapid growth of demand for agricultural and municipal water, annual global groundwater extraction has increased in recent decades from 100 km3 a year in 1950 to a current estimated use of about 800 km3 a year (Wada et al., 2010; Margat, 2008). Today, 43 percent of global irrigation (Siebert...
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2012/06/01
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Examen institucional y de la gestión pública (IGR)
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71742
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1
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2012/08/09
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Disclosed
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Managing the invisible : understanding and improving groundwater governance
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groundwater