Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Groundwater use in developing cities: policy issues arising from current trends

Utilisation de la nappe dans les villes en développement: problèmes de police de l’eau liés aux tendances actuelles

Uso del agua subterránea en ciudades en desarrollo: cuestiones políticas que surgen de las tendencias actuales

新兴城市的地下水利用:目前趋势与政策问题

Uso de água subterrânea em cidades em desenvolvimento: questões políticas decorrentes das tendências actuais

  • Essay
  • Published:
Hydrogeology Journal Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Buapeng S, Foster SSD (2008) Controlling groundwater abstraction and related environmental degradation in Metropolitan Bangkok-Thailand. GW-MATE Case Profile Collection 20. World Bank, Washington, DC. www.worldbank.org/gwmate. Cited January 2009

  • Foster SSD, Chilton PJ (2004) Downstream of downtown: urban wastewater as groundwater recharge. Hydrogeol J 12:115–120

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Foster SSD, Lawrence AR, Morris BL (1998) Groundwater in urban development: assessing management needs and formulating policy strategies. World Bank Technical Paper 390, World Bank, Washington, DC, 55 pp

  • Foster SSD, Hirata R, Misra S, Garduno H (2010) Urban groundwater use policy: balancing the benefits and risks in developing nations. GW-MATE Strategic Overview Series 3. World Bank, Washington, DC. www.worldbank.org/gwmate. Cited July 2010

  • Howard KWF (ed) (2007) Urban groundwater: meeting the challenge. IAH Selected Paper Series 8, Taylor & Francis, Oxford, UK, 307 pp

  • Reynolds J, Freire J, Hirata R (2002) Trends in nitrate concentration and determination of its origin using stable isotopes in groundwater of the Western Central Valley of Costa Rica. Ambio 35:229–236

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zhang L, Kennedy C (2006) Determination of sustainable yield in urban groundwater systems: Beijing, China. J Hydrol Eng 11:21–28

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

This essay is a by-product of efforts by the World Bank Groundwater Management Advisory Team (GW-MATE), directed by the first author, to assist various national government agencies in developing nations (most notably those of Brazil and India) to formulate more appropriate policy on urban groundwater use. This work has benefited greatly by its presentation and discussion at the following series of regional or thematic conferences, co-sponsored by the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) : Kampala (Uganda) in June 2008, Hannover (Germany) in October 2008, Natal (Brazil) in November 2008, Bangkok (Thailand) in February 2009 and Bogota (Colombia) in July 2009.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH), PO Box 4130, Goring, Reading, RG8 6BJ, UK

    Stephen D. Foster

  2. Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Ricardo Hirata

  3. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Ken W. F. Howard

Authors
  1. Stephen D. Foster
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Ricardo Hirata
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Ken W. F. Howard
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Stephen D. Foster.

Additional information

Stephen D. Foster - (IAH Past President)

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Foster, S.D., Hirata, R. & Howard, K.W.F. Groundwater use in developing cities: policy issues arising from current trends. Hydrogeol J 19, 271–274 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-010-0681-2

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-010-0681-2

Keywords

Search

Navigation