With nearly 30 million wells having sprung up during the last half century, India is a global hotspot of groundwater use. The book Clean and Sustainable Ground Water in India, edited by Dipankar Saha, Sanjay Marwaha, and Arunangshu Mukherjee and published by Springer, offers a window to the prevailing challenges…
The Nature Conservancy (TNC), one of GRIPP’s partners, has recently published a guidance document for identifying and considering groundwater dependent ecosystems (GDEs) when preparing groundwater sustainability plans under California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). The guidance provides a systematic 5-step approach to identify GDEs, determine whether potential effects on GDEs…
Rain and roads typically don’t get along. More often than not, roads act as drains or dikes, creating flood hazards and interfering with natural runoff and recharge patterns, increasingly at the expense of farming and livelihoods. A GRIPP Partner, MetaMeta has been working on a new project and concept to…
Spate irrigation is one type of flood-based livelihood systems where short duration predictable floods are diverted, distributed and managed from seasonal or ephemeral rivers (sometimes called wadis). The region of present-day Yemen is generally considered the first in the world to practice flood-based farming, dating back thousands of years. The…
As the largest reservoir of freshwater on Earth, groundwater provides a valuable store of natural capital. How groundwater is accessed by individual users and how it is allocated among competing uses will determine the benefits that individuals, firms, farmers and society as a whole reap from the resource – today…
The International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH), a key Core Partner in the GRIPP Platform, recorded a number of achievements in 2017 that overall helps advance the GRIPP Mission. At the end of 2017, its membership once again exceeded 4100, with members in 133 countries and 46 national chapters. IAH has…
GRIPP Case Profile Series – Issue 2 Abstract The second issue of the GRIPP Case Profile Series documents the use of water quotas and pricing mechanisms in Northwest China to control and manage groundwater. Since the 1970s, this region has experienced intensive groundwater abstraction by smallholder farmers. In 2002, however,…
In the late 1970s, the Australian Government’s Aid Agency and Myanmar’s Rural Water Supply Division (RWSP) of the Agricultural Mechanisation Department (AMD) were conducting a Groundwater Resource Assessment for the Central Dry Zone of Myanmar. The study was extremely comprehensive—covering over 50,000km2 and serving about a quarter of Myanmar’s population.…
Dr. Kerstin Danert of the Skat Foundation, a GRIPP partner, was recently given the 2017 International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) Distinguished Associate Award. The award was granted for her outstanding contribution to the understanding, development, management and protection of groundwater resources internationally. Profiled this month in the International Association of Hydrogeologists,…
Partners in the Groundwater Solutions Initiative for Policy and Practice (GRIPP) contributed to the 8th Water Research Horizon Conference (WRHC-8) which was held in Hamburg, Germany, on September 19-20, 2017. They also organized an Open Space Workshop (OSW) on challenges for international groundwater research for development. The WRHC is organized…
