This will be achieved through the compilation of state-of-art scientific and technical knowledge currently available on groundwater resources and their governance.
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Reliance on groundwater however is highly problematic as the exploitation of non-renewable groundwater resources and aquifers are irreversible and difficult to monitor.
Additionally, the programme will allow Iraqi water engineers across the country to share information on groundwater resources with each other quickly and efficiently.
During intense consultations the importance of a sound management of groundwater resources necessary to prevent and reverse the global water crisis were successfully addressed.
The project will develop a global "Framework of Action" (FA), consisting of a menu of best practices for the sustainable management of groundwater resources.
The overall objective of the project is to promote the sound management of groundwater resources in order to prevent and even reverse a global water crisis.
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It also takes a look at the potential mechanisms for creating and sustainably operating an appropriate institutional structure to manage these shared groundwater resources (Part III).
The overall objective of the project is to increase the awareness of the paramount importance of sound groundwater resources management to tackle the global water crisis.
The overall project objective is to increase the awareness of the paramount importance of sound management of groundwater resources in preventing and reversing the global water crisis.
This project is designed to serve Member States and, though their best practices, jointly understand the complex nexus between science and governance in the management of groundwater resources.
Absent until now, this complete picture of groundwater resources in the country will provide national and local authorities the tools to identify accurately and manage sustainably this precious resource.
The overall project objective is to increase the awareness on the paramount importance of a sound management of our groundwater resources in preventing and reversing the global water crisis.
Climate change effects on groundwater resources are, therefore, closely linked to other global change drivers, including population growth, urbanization and land-use change, coupled with other socio-economic and political trends.
Despite these real concerns over unsustainable abstraction rates and pollution, groundwater resources, if carefully managed, can make a major contribution to meeting the demand for water in the future and to adapting to climate change.
Since January 2012, UNESCO has been working in the drought-affected countries in the Horn of Africa to identify and to map groundwater resources for an aquifer that will provide at least 200, 000 cubic meters of renewable water every year.
This volume contains case studies from diverse aquifer systems, scientific methods, and climatic settings that have been conducted globally under the framework of the UNESCO-IHP project Groundwater Resources Assessment under the Pressures of Humanity and Climate Change ( GRAPHIC).
Their discussions focused on politics, the economy and development as well as issues related to education, social justice and the sciences, and in this regard more specifically to the importance of sustainable groundwater resources management in averting the impending water crisis.
It will serve as a technical basis for the visioning process by compiling the best available present scientific and technical knowledge on groundwater resources and their governance, to be accessible to a large public of policy and decision makers across development sectors.
Over three-years, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) and the World Bank are working closely with Member States to, though their best practices, jointly understand the complex nexus between science and governance in the management of groundwater resources.
Ethanol mandates are prompting more and more corn to be planted on land that is poorly suited for agriculture, causing erosion and pesticide runoff to infiltrate groundwater and aquifer resources.
Within this context, UNESCO has assisted the GEF in the formulation of a conceptual framework for strategic action on groundwater and transboundary aquifers, and in the establishment of a portfolio of groundwater projects addressing key global resources and issues.
Groundwater is a major component of water resources in arid regions.
Groundwater governance is even more complicated when the resources are shared across border.
UNESCO-IHP through its networks and partners actively contributes to the implementation of the Ramsar Convention in particular by identifying and inventorying transboundary aquifers and groundwater dependent ecosystems that are vital for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources.
Increased groundwater abstraction, for example, may be needed in areas with unsustainable or contaminated surface water resources caused by droughts and floods.
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