Groundwater Allocation

Goesch, Tim; Qureshi, Muhammad Ejaz; Hafi, Ahmed

doi:10.1787/9789264281554-en

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“…The pressures acting on GDEs have significantly increased in the last decades and have determined the deterioration of their quantitative and qualitative status [57]. The database WATERBASE (the database containing data on the chemical quality and the characteristics of the GW bodies of European Union member states) revealed that 25% of GW bodies are characterized by a qualitative-quantitative state altered due to the co-occurrence of different anthropogenic factors [54,58,59].…”

Section: Freshwater Habitat Type Biodiversity and Ecological Featuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Characteristics, Main Impacts, and Stewardship of Natural and Artificial Freshwater Environments: Consequences for Biodiversity Conservation

Cantonati

Poikāne

Pringle

et al. 2020

Water

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In this overview (introductory article to a special issue including 14 papers), we consider all main types of natural and artificial inland freshwater habitas (fwh). For each type, we identify the main biodiversity patterns and ecological features, human impacts on the system and environmental issues, and discuss ways to use this information to improve stewardship. Examples of selected key biodiversity/ecological features (habitat type): narrow endemics, sensitive (groundwater and GDEs); crenobionts, LIHRes (springs); unidirectional flow, nutrient spiraling (streams); naturally turbid, floodplains, large-bodied species (large rivers); depth-variation in benthic communities (lakes); endemism and diversity (ancient lakes); threatened, sensitive species (oxbow lakes, SWE); diverse, reduced littoral (reservoirs); cold-adapted species (Boreal and Arctic fwh); endemism, depauperate (Antarctic fwh); flood pulse, intermittent wetlands, biggest river basins (tropical fwh); variable hydrologic regime—periods of drying, flash floods (arid-climate fwh). Selected impacts: eutrophication and other pollution, hydrologic modifications, overexploitation, habitat destruction, invasive species, salinization. Climate change is a threat multiplier, and it is important to quantify resistance, resilience, and recovery to assess the strategic role of the different types of freshwater ecosystems and their value for biodiversity conservation. Effective conservation solutions are dependent on an understanding of connectivity between different freshwater ecosystems (including related terrestrial, coastal and marine systems).

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Section: Freshwater Habitat Type Biodiversity and Ecological Featuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Characteristics, Main Impacts, and Stewardship of Natural and Artificial Freshwater Environments: Consequences for Biodiversity Conservation

Cantonati

Poikāne

Pringle

et al. 2020

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“…3 Groundwater management in France, Spain and California: context A wide diversity of institutional design options exist around the world for ensuring sustainable groundwater extraction and allocating groundwater (OECD, 2017). However, only a few clearly set out to tackle over-extraction of groundwater resources while simultaneously encouraging comanagement between the State and users (Molle and Closas, 2020a).…”

Section: Figure 1 Sharing Groundwater Rights: An Illustration Of Possible Governance Arrangementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transitioning out of Open Access: A Closer Look at Institutions for Management of Groundwater Rights in France, California, and Spain

Rouillard

Babbitt

Pulido-Velázquez

et al. 2021

Water Resources Research

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Groundwater forms the invisible, subsurface part of the hydrological cycle, playing a vital role for maintaining base flows of rivers during the dry seasons. It is also a vital source of water for modern economies, accounting for 25% of total water extraction worldwide and a quarter of the irrigation water used to grow the world's food (Aquastat, 2016). Yet, aquifers are being over-exploited at an alarming rate in many regions around the world-a situation that is expected to worsen under climate change as recharge rates will be increasingly affected (Famiglietti, 2014;Taylor et al., 2013). Groundwater depletion contributes to the decisions by water managers to "close" access to water resources in aquifers and river basins (Molle et al., 2010). As societal and environmental needs cannot be met for at least part of the year, water managers must deal with complex trade-offs between economic interests, livelihoods, and environmental priorities.To tackle overexploitation, groundwater management is progressively shifting from an open-access regime of water resource extraction to one of regulated access all over the world (Giordano et al., 2009;Shah, 2009). Regulated access typically relies on setting a sustainable flow rate or volumetric cap on total water extraction, and reducing and maintaining extractions at or below that cap (Rinaudo et al., 2020). It can also rely on a pigouvian tax or restrictions imposed when sustainability limits are reached (for example, groundwater threshold levels). The core issue when closing access to water resources becomes how to best allocate limited water supplies between competing users, and between users and the environment. It involves setting up processes and mechanisms which enable social actors to share water according to a recognized set of values and priorities.Much academic debate has focused on the question of who should control or supervise allocation decision-making, with no conclusive outcome as to whether state or community approaches are preferable (Bruns et al., 2005;Rinaudo et al., 2019). On the one hand, state approaches appear more accountable, but they have usually failed to effectively reduce groundwater use to sustainable levels (Molle & Closas, 2020b). On the other hand, community approaches appear more legitimate, at least to the regulated. They have been most effective where the community had a social basis for collective action, for example a common

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“…More broadly, governments should consider adjusting the recruitment and career management of staff (World Bank -OECD, 2018 [19]) to ensure an adequate level of skills, technicity, flexibility, and resilience to organisational change. The capacity of the public sector to innovate, in particular when responding to policy change, requires that its staff is capable and motivated to implement requested changes (OECD, 2017 [42]). The hiring process of water professionals should be merit-based, transparent and independent of political cycles to ensure the staff has the appropriate competences from the outset (OECD, 2018 [27]).…”

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“…Consulting and engaging staff in public institutions during the whole process of change is essential to ensuring agents will be willing to change their behaviour and adopt new rules (OECD, 2017 [42]). Managers and staff should jointly diagnose the problem, address fears and concerns, and collaborate in organisational changes (Coram and Burnes, 2001[49]).…”

Section: Ensure Governance and Institutions Are Alignedmentioning

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Navigating pathways to reform water policies in agriculture

Gruère

Boëdec

2019

OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers

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This paper is published under the responsibility of the Secretary General of the OECD. The opinions expressed and the arguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of OECD countries. The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law. This document has been declassified on the responsibility of the Joint Working Party on Agriculture and the Environment under the OECD reference number COM/TAD/CA/ENV/EPOC(2018)16/FINAL.

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Groundwater Allocation

Cited by 10 publications

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Characteristics, Main Impacts, and Stewardship of Natural and Artificial Freshwater Environments: Consequences for Biodiversity Conservation

Characteristics, Main Impacts, and Stewardship of Natural and Artificial Freshwater Environments: Consequences for Biodiversity Conservation

Transitioning out of Open Access: A Closer Look at Institutions for Management of Groundwater Rights in France, California, and Spain

Navigating pathways to reform water policies in agriculture

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