Because of the logics of both colonization or de-colonization, the need to counter the anarchy of groundwater use, or the dissemination of global 'best practices' of IWRM, states have often assumed full ownership or custody of groundwater. Regulating groundwater use includes giving drilling and a...
Molle, Francois
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Closas, Alvar
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[State regulations in groundwater management: they bark but do they bite?]
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State regulations in groundwater management: they bark but do they bite?
Closas, Alvar
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Molle, Francois
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[Groundwater governance in the Middle East and North Africa. [Project report of the Groundwater Governance in the Arab World - Taking Stock and Addressing the Challenges].]
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Groundwater governance in the Middle East and North Africa. [Project report of the Groundwater Governance in the Arab World - Taking Stock and Addressing the Challenges].
Closas, Alvar
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Molle, Francois
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[Groundwater governance in Asia and the Pacific. [Project report of the Groundwater Governance in the Arab World - Taking Stock and Addressing the Challenges].]
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Groundwater governance in Asia and the Pacific. [Project report of the Groundwater Governance in the Arab World - Taking Stock and Addressing the Challenges].
Closas, Alvar
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Molle, Francois
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[Groundwater governance in Europe. [Project report of the Groundwater Governance in the Arab World - Taking Stock and Addressing the Challenges].]
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Groundwater governance in Europe. [Project report of the Groundwater Governance in the Arab World - Taking Stock and Addressing the Challenges].
Closas, Alvar
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Molle, Francois
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[Groundwater governance in Sub-Saharan Africa. [Project report of the Groundwater Governance in the Arab World - Taking Stock and Addressing the Challenges].]
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Groundwater governance in Sub-Saharan Africa. [Project report of the Groundwater Governance in the Arab World - Taking Stock and Addressing the Challenges].
Closas, Alvar
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Villholth, Karen G.
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[Aquifer contracts: a means to solving groundwater over-exploitation in Morocco?]
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Aquifer contracts: a means to solving groundwater over-exploitation in Morocco?
This paper presents a historical analysis of the different policy tools used to manage and regulate groundwater abstraction in the Western Mancha aquifer. Without much initial regulation and control, groundwater resources and aquifer levels decreased dramatically, threatening agriculture and also...
Closas, Alvar
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Molle, Francois
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Hernández Mora, N.
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[Sticks and carrots: managing groundwater overabstraction in La Mancha, Spain]
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Sticks and carrots: managing groundwater overabstraction in La Mancha, Spain
Molle, Francois
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Closas, Alvar
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Al-Zubari, W.
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[Governing groundwater in the Middle East and North Africa Region]
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Governing groundwater in the Middle East and North Africa Region
This paper assesses a case of co-management of groundwater between the state of Texas, pushing for the rationalisation of groundwater management, and local (mainly farming) communities organised in Groundwater Conservation Districts (GCDs), which are protective of their private groundwater rights...
Closas, Alvar
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Molle, Francois
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[Chronicle of a demise foretold: state vs. local groundwater management in Texas and the high plains aquifer system]
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Chronicle of a demise foretold: state vs. local groundwater management in Texas and the high plains aquifer system
The Nile Delta of Egypt is known for its large irrigated area supplied with water diverted from the Nile River, with a limited use of groundwater, largely for domestic and industrial use. Official statistics for the whole delta indicate that there are a few thousand individual wells used for agri...
El-Agha, Doaa E.
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Closas, Alvar
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Molle, Francois
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[Below the radar: the boom of groundwater use in the central part of the Nile Delta in Egypt]
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Below the radar: the boom of groundwater use in the central part of the Nile Delta in Egypt