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Groundwater: a regional resource and a regional governance

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Groundwater is a valuable renewable resource for human life. The two major threatening issues being faced by groundwater are its depletion and degradation which affect both the quantity and the quality of groundwater. Though scientific output has progressed well ahead in the domain of groundwater, very little has been done with respect to the establishment of the groundwater governance framework. Groundwater is perceived as a widely distributed resource, but it is fundamentally a local entity. The paper presents the groundwater governance framework from the regional perspective of Fatehgarh Sahib district of Punjab, India—an over-exploited groundwater region.

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The authors are thankful to Water Supply and Sanitation Department, Punjab, for the laboratory-based data of water quality parameters of Fatehgarh Sahib district of Punjab. The authors express sincere gratitude to the reviewers and the editors for their valuable feedback.

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Kumar, P., Thakur, P.K., Bansod, B.K.S. et al. Groundwater: a regional resource and a regional governance. Environ Dev Sustain 20, 1133–1151 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-017-9931-y

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