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T A G R HE GRICULTURAL ROUNDWATER EVOLUTION Opportunities and Threats to Development This page intentionally left blank T A HE GRICULTURAL G R ROUNDWATER EVOLUTION Opportunities and Threats to Development Edited by Mark Giordano and Karen G. Villholth International Water Management Institute Colombo Sri Lanka CABI is a trading name of CAB International CABI Head Office CABI North American Office Nosworthy Way 875 Massachusetts Avenue Wallingford 7th Floor Oxfordshire OX10 8DE Cambridge, MA 02139 UK USA Tel: +44 (0)1491 832111 Tel: +1 617 395 4056 Fax: +44 (0)1491 833508 Fax: +1 617 354 6875 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.cabi.org Published in association with: International Water Management Institute PO Box 2075 Colombo Sri Lanka ©CAB International 2007. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronically, mechanically, by photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owners. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library, London, UK. A catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. ISBN-13: 978 1 84593 172 8 Typeset in Optima by SPi, Pondicherry, India Printed and bound in the UK by Cromwell Press, Trowbridge. Contents Contributors vii Series Foreword xi 1. The Agricultural Groundwater Revolution: Setting the Stage 1 Mark Giordano and Karen G. Villholth I The Situation: Overview of Regional and Topical Issues 2. The Groundwater Economy of South Asia: An Assessment 7 of Size, Significance and Socio-ecological Impacts Tushaar Shah 3. The Development, Challenges and Management of Groundwater 37 in Rural China Jinxia Wang, Jikun Huang, Amelia Blanke, Qiuqiong Huang and Scott Rozelle 4. Rural Economic Transitions: Groundwater Use in the Middle 63 East and Its Environmental Consequences J.A. Tony Allan 5. Sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunistic Exploitation 79 Mutsa Masiyandima and Mark F. Giordano 6. Groundwater in Central America: Its Importance, Development 100 and Use, with Particular Reference to Its Role in Irrigated Agriculture Maureen Ballestero, Virginia Reyes and Yamileth Astorga v vi Contents II Current Management Paradigms 7. Community Management of Groundwater 131 Edella Schlager 8. Instruments and Institutions for Groundwater Management 153 Karin Erika Kemper 9. When the Well Runs Dry but Livelihood Continues: Adaptive 173 Responses to Groundwater Depletion and Strategies for Mitigating the Associated Impacts Marcus Moench III Case Studies and Innovative Experience 10. The Groundwater Recharge Movement in India 195 Ramaswamy Sakthivadivel 11. Energy–Irrigation Nexus in South Asia: Improving Groundwater 211 Conservation and Power Sector Viability Tushaar Shah, Christopher Scott, Avinash Kishore and Abhishek Sharma 12. To Adapt or Not to Adapt: The Dilemma between Long-term 243 Resource Management and Short-term Livelihood Srinivas Mudrakartha 13. Lessons from Intensive Groundwater Use In Spain: Economic 266 and Social Benefits and Conflicts M. Ramón Llamas and Alberto Garrido 14. Groundwater Management in the High Plains Aquifer 296 in the USA: Legal Problems and Innovations John C. Peck 15. Institutional Directions in Groundwater Management in Australia 320 Hugh Turral and Imogen Fullagar 16. Sharing Groundwater Information, Knowledge and Experience 362 on a Worldwide Scale Jac A.M. van der Gun 17. Groundwater Use in a Global Perspective – Can It be Managed? 393 Karen G. Villholth and Mark Giordano Index 403 Contributors J.A. Tony Allan, King’s College London & SOAS University of London, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London, WC1H 0XG, UK, Fax/Tel: +44 20 78984058, E-mail: [email protected] Yamileth Astorga,Coordinator of Global Water Partnership of Central America (GWP-CA), Oficial Te¯cnico, GWP-Centroamérica, Correo electrónico, Fax: +240-9934, Tel: +506-241 0101, E-mail: [email protected] Maureen Ballestero, Coordinator of Global Water Partnership of Central America (GWP-CA), Oficial Técnico, GWP-Centroamérica, Correo electrónico, Fax: +240-9934, Tel: +506-241 0101, E-mail: [email protected] Amelia Blanke,Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA, Fax: +530 752 6770, Tel: +530 752 6770, E-mail: [email protected] Imogen Fullagar,Charles Sturt University, c/o CSIRO Land and Water, GPO Box 1666, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia, Tel: +2 6246 5858, Mobile: +423 149 497, E-mail: [email protected] Alberto Garrido,Department of Agricultural Economics, Technical University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain, Fax: +34 91 3944-845, E-mail: alberto.garrido@ upm.es Mark Giordano,International Water Management Institute, 127, Sunil Mawatha, Pelawatte, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka, Fax: 94112786854, E-mail: mark.giordano@ cgiar.org Jikun Huang, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jia 11 Datun Road, Anwai, Beijing 100101, PR China, Fax: +861064856533, E-mail: [email protected] vii viii Contributors Qiuqiong Huang ,Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, 249e Classroom Office Building, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA, E-mail: [email protected]. Karin Erika Kemper, World Bank (South Asia Sustainable Development Department), 1818H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA, Fax: +1 202 614 1074, E-mail: [email protected] Avinash Kishore, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Robertson Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544-1013, USA, E-mail: [email protected] M. Ramón Llamas, Department of Geodynamics, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain, Fax: +3491 3944-845, E-mail: mrllamas@geo. ucm.es Mutsa Masiyandima,International Water Management Institute, 141, Cresswell Street, Weavind Park 0184, Pretoria, South Africa, Fax: +27 12 8459110, E-mail: [email protected] Marcus Moench, Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (ISEI), 948 North Street, Suite 7, Boulder, CO 80304, USA, Fax +720 564 0653, E-mail: [email protected] Srinivas Mudrakartha, Vikram Sarabhai Centre for Development Interaction (VIKSAT) Nehru Foundation for Development, Ahmedabad 380054, India, Fax: +91-79-26856220, E-mail: [email protected] John C. Peck,University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, KS 66045; Special Counsel, Foulston Siefkin LLP, Overland Park, KS 66210, USA, Tel: +1 785 864 9228, E-mail: [email protected] Virginia Reyes, Coordinator of Global Water Partnership of Central America (GWP-CA), Oficial Técnico, GWP-Centroamérica, Correo electrónico, Fax: +240 9934, Tel: +506-241 0101, E-mail: [email protected] Scott Rozelle,Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA, Fax: +530 752 6770, Tel:+530 752 6770, E-mail: [email protected] Ramaswamy Sakthivadivel, 33 First East Street, Kamrajnagar, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai 600 041, Tamil Nadu, India, E-mail: [email protected] Edella Schlager,University of Arizona, School of Public Administration and Policy, McClelland Hall, Room 405, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA, E-mail: [email protected] Christopher Scott, 2601 Spencer Road, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA, Tel: +301 587 5485, E-mail: [email protected] Tushaar Shah, IWMI-TATA Water Policy Program, Anand Field Office, Elecon Premises, Anand-Sojitra Road, Vallabh Vidyanagar 388 129, Anand, Gujarat, India, Fax: +91 26923 229310, E-mail: [email protected] Abhishek Sharma, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt. Ltd., PwC Centre Saidulajab, Opposite D-Block Saket, Mehrauli Badarpur Road, New Delhi–110 030, Telephone: [91](11) 41250000, Fax: [91](11)4125 0250 Email: [email protected], [email protected] Contributors ix Hugh Turral, International Water Management Institute, 127, Sunil Mawatha, Pelawatte, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka, Fax: 94112786854, E-mail: [email protected] Jac A.M. van der Gun,International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre (IGRAC), PO Box 80015, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands, Fax: +31 30 256 4755, E-mail: [email protected] Karen G. Villholth, International Water Management Institute, 127, Sunil Mawatha, Pelawatte, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka, Fax: 94112786854, E-mail: [email protected] Jinxia Wang, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jia 11 Datun Road, Anwai, Beijing 100101, PR China, Fax: +861064856533, E-mail: [email protected]
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