2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2013.10.010
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Groundwater—a global focus on the ‘local resource’

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“…Local, regional and continental aquifers are strategically significant, constituting the planet's major storage reserve of freshwater and representing a critical buffer for socioeconomic adaptation to climate and environmental change. Threats to their sustainability, associated with both excessive exploitation and quality degradation over the past 30-50 years (Foster et al, 2013), represent a potential impediment to achieving the SDGs-and this applies not only to the SDG-6 for water but also to SDG-2 on food security, SDG-3 on human health, SDG-11 on resilient cities and SDG-15 on protecting ecosystems and conserving biodiversity. In many ways, the proposed SDGs tend to "skate around" the critical consideration of absolute physical constraints on natural resources such as groundwater, and how these have been significantly reduced as a result of historically inadequate custodianship.…”
Section: Understanding the Sdg Interlinkagesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Local, regional and continental aquifers are strategically significant, constituting the planet's major storage reserve of freshwater and representing a critical buffer for socioeconomic adaptation to climate and environmental change. Threats to their sustainability, associated with both excessive exploitation and quality degradation over the past 30-50 years (Foster et al, 2013), represent a potential impediment to achieving the SDGs-and this applies not only to the SDG-6 for water but also to SDG-2 on food security, SDG-3 on human health, SDG-11 on resilient cities and SDG-15 on protecting ecosystems and conserving biodiversity. In many ways, the proposed SDGs tend to "skate around" the critical consideration of absolute physical constraints on natural resources such as groundwater, and how these have been significantly reduced as a result of historically inadequate custodianship.…”
Section: Understanding the Sdg Interlinkagesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Nearly one quarter of the world's population -1.7 billion people -live in regions where more water is being consumed than nature can renew (Gleeson et al 2012). Over-exploitation occurs when groundwater abstraction is too intensive, for example for irrigation or for direct industrial water-supply like extracting fossil fuels Foster et al 2013). When groundwater is continuously overpumped, year after year, the volume withdrawn from the aquifer cannot be replaced by recharge.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Over half of the world's population uses groundwater for its daily needs [2] and over 40% of agriculture is irrigated by groundwater [3,4]. Groundwater sustains groundwater dependent ecosystems [5 ] and buffers against climate change and variability [6]. However, groundwater governance is sporadic and disjointed.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%