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标题：The global groundwater situation: overview of opportunities and challenges
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作者：Shah, Tushaar ; Molden, David J. ; Sakthivadivel, Ramasamy 等
期刊名称：Journal of Food Distribution Research
印刷版ISSN：0047-245X
出版年度：2000
期号：SUPPL
出版社：Food Distribution Research Society
摘要：Groundwater offers us few but precious opportunities for alleviating the misery of the poor; but it poses many—and daunting—challenges of preserving the resource itself. A big part of the answer is massive initiatives to augment groundwater recharge in regions suffering depletion; but, in the ultimate analysis, these cannot work without appropriate demand-side interventions. The water vision of a world that future generations will inherit will have to be the one in which groundwater plays its full developmental, productive and environmental role but in a sustainable manner; and the framework of action to realize this vision will mean eschewing the current free-for-all in groundwater appropriation and use, and promoting a more responsible management of this precious resource that is easy to deplete or ruin—through depletion, salinization and pollution
关键词：Groundwater resources;Groundwater depletion;Water scarcity;Water shortage;Poverty;Rural development;River basins;Sustainability;Waterlogging;Salinity;Aquifers;Water pollution;Pumps;Recharge;Water harvesting