Groundwater Management Advisory Team
Endorsed by the Water Anchor of World Bank, IGRAC has contributed to the dissemination of the GW-MATE knowledge products. In the period of 2000-2010, the Groundwater Management Advisory Team (GW-MATE) provided an original and very valuable contribution to the understanding of groundwater in general, including mitigation of groundwater-related problems and sustainable groundwater use.
GW-MATE Briefing Note Series
- Groundwater Resources Management: an introduction to its scope and practice
- Characterisation of Groundwater Systems: key concepts and frequent misconceptions
- Groundwater Management Strategies: facets of the integrated approach
- Groundwater Legislation and Regulatory Provision: from customary rules to integrated catchment planning
- Groundwater Abstraction Rights: from theory to practice
- Stakeholder Participation in Groundwater Management: enabling and nurturing engagement
- Economic Instruments for Groundwater Management: using incentives to improve sustainability
- Groundwater Quality Protection: defining strategy and setting priorities
- Groundwater Monitoring Requirements: for managing aquifer response and quality threats
- Groundwater Dimensions of National Water Resources and River Basin Planning: promoting an integrated strategy
- Utilisation of Non-Renewable Groundwater: a socially-sustainable approach to resource management
- Urban Wastewater as Groundwater Recharge: evaluating and managing risks and benefits
- Groundwater Resource Development in Minor Aquifers: management strategy for village and small town water supply
- Natural Groundwater Quality Hazards: avoiding problems and formulating mitigation strategies
- Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems: characterisation procedures and conservation measures
- Groundwater Resource Accounting: critical for effective management in a changing world
GW-MATE Case Profile Collection
- Thailand - Strengthening capacity in groundwater resources management
- Yemen - Rationalising groundwater resources utilisation in the Sana's basin
- Paraguay - Actual and potential regulatory issues relating to groundwater use in Gran Asuncion
- Argentina - Mitigation of groundwater drainage problems in the Buenos Aires Conurbation
- Brazil, Kenya - Subsurface dams to augment GW storage in basement terrain for human subsistence
- Argentina - Integrated approaches to groundwater resources conservation in the Mendoza aquifers
- Venezuela - Yacambu, Quibor: a project for integrated groundwater and surface water management
- China - Towards a sustainable GW resource use for irrigated groundwater and surface water management
- Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina - The Guarani Aquifer Initiative
- Mexico - The 'Cotas': progress with stakeholder participation in GW management in Guanajuato
- India - Tamil Nadu: resolving the conflict over rural GW use between drinking water and irrigation supply
- Nepal - Approach to mitigation of GW arsenic contamination including new groundwater legislation
- Kenya - The role of groundwater in the water supply of Greater Nairobi
- Brazil - GW use in Metropolitan Fortaleza: evaluating its strategic importance and potential hazard
- Sub-Saharan Africa - Groundwater Development: a strategic overview of key issues and major needs
- Brazil - Promoting management of an inter-state aquifer under development for irrigated agriculture
- Bangladesh - Managing the sustainable development of groundwater for arsenic-safe water supplies
- India - Confronting the groundwater management challenge in the deccan traps country of Maharashtra
- India - Addressing GW depletion in the (...) weathered granitic basement aquifer of Andhra Pradesh
- Thailand - Controlling GW abstraction and related environmental degradation in metropolitan Bangkok
- India - Groundwater use in Aurangabad
- India - A hydrogeologic and socio-economic evaluation of community based GWM - the case of Hivre Bazaar
- India - Lucknow City - Groundwater Resource use and strategic planning needs
GW-MATE Book Contributions
- Groundwater Quality Protection - A guide for utilities, municipal authorities and environment agencies
- IAH Hydrogeology Journal Special Issue 'Groundwater Management in Practice' (Volume 12-1)
- Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater: Towards a more effective operational response
- Non-Renewable Groundwater Resources - A guidebook on socially-sustainable use for water policy-makers
- Deep Wells and Prudence: Towards pragmatic action for addressing groundwater overexploitation in India
GW•MATE Strategic Overview Series
- Groundwater Governance - conceptual framework for assessment of provisions and needs
- Conjunctive Use of Groundwater and Surface Water - from spontaneous coping strategy to adaptive resource management
- Urban Groundwater Use Policy - balancing the benefits and risks in developing nations
- Sustainable Groundwater Irrigation - approaches to reconciling demand with resources
- Appropriate Groundwater Management for Sub-Saharan Africa - in face of demographic pressures, climate variability and hydrogeologic uncertainty
