Groundwater Development

This page is background for a special event at the UN on 3 May 2023; the draft concept note is here. The intent is demonstrate how science, technology, innovation, and engineering underpins achievement of the SDGs in this case SDG 6 through groundwater development. Please send suggestions to acecc-tc14@googlegroups.com

General

Bangladesh

• Challenges of sustainable groundwater development and management in Bangladesh: vision 2050  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780128181720000311

• Groundwater governance in Bangladesh: Established practices and recent trends https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352801X17300073

• Sustainable groundwater quality in southeast coastal Bangladesh: co-dispersions, sources, and probabilistic health risk assessment https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10668-021-01447-4

Mongolia 

• Analysis of Groundwater Recharge in Mongolian Drylands Using Composite Vadose Zone Modeling https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frwa.2022.802208/full

• Estimating Groundwater Recharge in Mongolia to improve water use efficiency https://waterforfood.nebraska.edu/resources/fy-2020-annual-report/research/supported-student-research/estimating-groundwater-recharge-in-mongolia-to-improve-water-use-efficiency

• Groundwater contamination assessment in Ulaanbaatar City, Mongolia with combined use of hydrochemical, environmental isotopic, and statistical approaches https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969720363191

• Ground Water https://mongolia.embassy.gov.au/ulnb/GroundWater.html

• Mongolia - Building Groundwater Modeling Capacity | U.S. Geological Survey https://www.usgs.gov/media/galleries/mongolia-building-groundwater-modeling-capacity

• Seeing the invisible: Disrupting groundwater monitoring in Mongolia https://blogs.worldbank.org/water/seeing-invisible-disrupting-groundwater-monitoring-mongolia

Nepal 

• Emphasis on sustainable groundwater management https://nepalnews.com/index.php/s/nation/emphasis-on-sustainable-groundwater-management

• Groundwater Dashboard Nepal https://gw-nepal.com/

• Identification of critical location for enhancing groundwater recharge in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352801X18302625

• Mapping groundwater resiliency under climate change scenarios: A case study of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935120300414narios: A case study of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal - ScienceDirect 

• Measuring the unseen: mobilizing citizen scientists to monitor groundwater in Nepal https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34355290/

• More than a drop in the bucket: addressing food security in Nepal through improved sustainable irrigation https://www.cimmyt.org/news/more-than-a-drop-in-the-bucket-addressing-food-security-in-nepal-through-improved-sustainable-irrigation/

• Nepal: Community Groundwater Irrigation Sector Project https://www.adb.org/publications/nepal-community-groundwater-irrigation-sector-project

• Sustainable and Inclusive Irrigation: Investment Priorities for Nepal https://agrilinks.org/post/sustainable-and-inclusive-irrigation-investment-priorities-nepal

Pakistan

• Groundwater Pakistan - Institute for Land, Water and Societyhttps://www.csu.edu.au/research/ilws/research/summaries/2017/groundwater-pakistan

• Managing Groundwater Resources in Pakistan’s Indus Basin  https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2021/03/25/managing-groundwater-resources-in-pakistan-indus-basin

Philippines 

• Arsenic in Groundwater Sources from Selected Communities Surrounding Taal Volcano, Philippines: An Exploratory Study https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4834/3/1/27

• Gov’t studying other prospective groundwater sources | Philippine News Agency https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1170369

• Groundwater recharge in a multi-aquifer system in Iloilo, Philippines - NASA/ADS https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016AGUFM.H53C1714G/abstrac

• Home - Philippine Groundwater Outlook https://admuwater.com/phigo

• Philippines Groundwater Outlook https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FS003118%2F1

• Spatial mapping of groundwater quality in the municipality of Santa Ignacia, Tarlac, Philippines https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13201-021-01513-2

Vietnam

• Groundwater Resources Assessment in Nam Dinh, Red River Delta https://www.bgr.bund.de/EN/Themen/Wasser/Projekte/abgeschlossen/TZ/Vietnam/vietnam_fb1_en.html

• Social sustainability assessment of groundwater resources: A case study of Hanoi, Vietnam https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1470160X1830445X

• Soil Aquifer Treatment as a Tool for Sustainable Groundwater Use in Hanoi/Vietnam https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=7409

• Sustainable groundwater development in the coastal Tra Vinh province in Vietnam under saltwater intrusion and climate change https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10040-023-02607-8