Garduño, HéctorFoster, Stephen2017-08-152017-08-152010https://hdl.handle.net/10986/27818The aim of this paper is to provide a strategic overview of a decade of experience in supporting public administrations in their efforts to confront excessive groundwater resource exploitation for agricultural irrigation. Special emphasis is put on a series of on-the-ground pilot projects mainly in South and East Asia and Latin America, which are profiled through a series of boxes introduced in the paper. In these pilots' appropriate packages of technical, economic, institutional and social measures, in the main selected through use of a 'pragmatic framework' for groundwater resource management, have been introduced with agreement of stakeholders in an attempt to promote more sustainable groundwater use in agricultural irrigation. They have achieved varying degrees of success but do provide hope and orientation for the future in this important aspect of water resource management.en-USCC BY 3.0 IGOAGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENTAGRICULTURAL IRRIGATIONAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONALLUVIAL DEPOSITSALTERNATIVE APPROACHANNUAL RAINFALLAQUIFER DEPLETIONAQUIFER MANAGEMENTAQUIFER RECHARGEAQUIFERSARTIFICIAL RECHARGEBARREN LANDBASINSBORESBRACKISH WATERBUNDSCANAL IRRIGATIONCATCHMENTCENTRIFUGAL PUMPSCLIMATE CHANGECOMPACTIONCONJUNCTIVE GROUNDWATERCONJUNCTIVE USECONJUNCTIVE USE OF GROUNDWATERCONSTRUCTIONCONSUMPTIVE USECROP CULTIVATIONCROP DIVERSIFICATIONCROP IRRIGATIONCROP PRODUCTIONCROP YIELDSCULTIVATED AREADEMAND FOR WATERDEPLETION OF GROUNDWATER RESOURCESDEWATERINGDOMESTIC USEDOMESTIC WATERDRAINAGEDRAWDOWNDRINKING WATERDRIP IRRIGATIONELECTRICITYENGINEERINGENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATIONENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTSEVAPORATIONFLOOD IRRIGATIONFLUORIDEFRESHWATERGLACIERSGROUNDWATERGROUNDWATER ABSTRACTIONGROUNDWATER DEVELOPMENTGROUNDWATER EXPLOITATIONGROUNDWATER EXTRACTIONGROUNDWATER IRRIGATIONGROUNDWATER LEVELGROUNDWATER MANAGEMENTGROUNDWATER MONITORING WELLSGROUNDWATER PUMPINGGROUNDWATER QUALITYGROUNDWATER RECHARGEGROUNDWATER RESOURCEGROUNDWATER RESOURCESGROUNDWATER SOURCESGROUNDWATER STOCKSGROUNDWATER SYSTEMSGROUNDWATER TABLEGROUNDWATER USEGROUNDWATER USERSGROUNDWATER¥TABLEHIGH LEVELSHYDRAULIC INFRASTRUCTUREIMPERMEABLE BASEIMPOUNDMENTINFILTRATIONIRRIGATED AGRICULTUREIRRIGATION CANALSIRRIGATION MANAGEMENTIRRIGATION SYSTEMSIRRIGATION USEIRRIGATION USERIRRIGATION USERSIRRIGATION WATERLAND DEGRADATIONLAND SURFACELEAKAGELIFT PUMPSLIVESTOCK GRAZINGLIVESTOCK PRODUCTIONMETERINGMONITORING PROGRAMMUNICIPAL WATERNATURAL RECHARGENUTRIENTSOVERPUMPINGPESTICIDESPOLLUTIONPONDSPRECIPITATIONPRESSUREPUBLIC WATERPUMPINGPUMPSRAINRAINFALL AREAREMOTE SENSINGRESERVOIRSRESIDUESRICE PRODUCTIONRIVERSRUNOFFRURAL COMMUNITIESSALINE WATERSAND AQUIFERSCREENSSEDIMENTATIONSEDIMENTSSEEPAGESOIL MOISTURESOILSSTABILIZATIONSUBMERSIBLE PUMPSSUCTION PUMPSSURFACE WATERSURFACE WATER RUNOFFTHERMAL ENERGYVADOSE ZONEVEGETATION COVERVITICULTUREWATER AVAILABILITYWATER CONSERVATIONWATER DEMANDWATER DEMANDSWATER DISTRIBUTIONWATER HARVESTINGWATER LAWWATER NEEDSWATER REQUIREMENTWATER RESOURCEWATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENTWATER RESOURCES CONSERVATIONWATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENTWATER SAVINGSWATER SERVICEWATER SUPPLIESWATER SUPPLYWATER TABLESWATER USEWATER USERWATER USER ASSOCIATIONSWATERSHEDWELL YIELDWELLSWorking PaperWorld Bank10.1596/27818