Spring - Managing Groundwater Sustainably
Today, the importance of groundwater is undiminished, yet around the world the gravity of threats to groundwater continue to mount. Ensuring that water resources are sustainable is a vast challenge. lt is felt in households and on farms, in nature’s quiet and in roaring mega-cities, in boardrooms and at cabinet tables. Meeting water needs of the world’s peoples and ecosystems is a complex problem, there are no simple solutions, but there are solutions. A water secure future depends on good science, increased finance and water resource management that brings people, sectors and countries together in common cause. lt demands cooperation and capable institutions - to cut pollution, adapt to climate change, protect us from water-related disasters, conserve biodiversity and supply all people, everywhere with safe water.
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- Water Utilities (WU)
- Maintaining groundwater sustainably
- Governance Structure
- Process
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IUCN
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