Resources

GROUNDWATER Making the invisible visible

The ninth edition of the United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR 2022) shines a spotlight on groundwater, calling attention to its specific roles, challenges and opportunities in the co...

Conjunctive Water Management: A powerful contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals

This publication intends to be an introduction to Conjunctive Water Management, with the general purpose to make the reader familiar with the concept and the specific purpose to provide guidance to...

Transboundary Aquifers - Challenges and the way forward

This publication, which is a compilation of studies, representing the status of transboundary aquifers knowledge around the world, offers an attempt to depict a variety of assessments of transbound...

MANAGING AQUIFER RECHARGE - A Showcase for Resilience and Sustainability

This book presents 28 real-life examples of Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) from around the world, where, at village to state level, people have collaborated to improve quantity and quality of water...

ISARM 2021 Transboundary Aquifers - Challenges and the way forward

This book contains 152 abstracts selected by the Conference’s Technical Programme Committee and Scientific Committee for presentations and posters at the International Shared Aquifer Resources Mana...

Groundwater and Surface Water in the Mega-Irrigation Systems of Pakistan

The Case for Conjunctive Management. This publication offers a case study that discusses Pakistan’s contrasting experiences with conjunctive use in the Punjab and Sindh provinces and attempts to mo...

SADC-GMI Resource Center

This Portal aims to provide easy access to groundwater information and data for the SADC region.

MAR Portal

This Portal enables sharing experience on about 1200 applications of managing aquifer recharge worldwide.

IGRAC Groundwater Catalogue

This Catalog presents an integrated approach to water resources management. It entails the management of surface water, groundwater, and other elements of the water cycle as a hydraulically interco...

TWAP VOLUME 1: Transboundary Aquifers and Groundwater Systems of Small Island Developing States-Status and Trends

This document – Volume 1 – presents the first comprehensive indicator-based global assessment of status and trends in 199 transboundary aquifers and 42 groundwater systems of Small Island Developin...

Training Manual: Integration of groundwater management into transboundary basin organizations in Africa

This training manual, available in English and French, is the product of two specific policy visions.

Groundwater Governance Project

Groundwater Governance - A Global Framework for Action (2011-2016) was a joint project supported by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of...

Information Management System (IMS) of the groundwater component of the Transboundary Waters Assessment Programme (TWAP)

This IMS hosts data of indicators describing the hydrogeological, environmental, socio-economic and governance dimensions of the transboundary aquifers.

Internationally Shared Aquifer Resources Management (ISARM)

The worldwide ISARM (Internationally Shared Aquifer Resources Management) Initiative is an UNESCO and IAH led multi-agency effort aimed at improving the understanding of scientific, socio-economic,...

Groundwater Solutions Initiative for Policy and Practice (GRIPP)

The GRIPP partnership, led by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), will strengthen, expand and connect current groundwater initiatives. It supported the Global Framework for Action...

Management and Protection of Mediterranean: Groundwater-Related Coastal Wetlands and their Services

This Regional Report presents the data and information generated between 2012 and 2014 in the framework of the activity Implementation of eco-hydrogeology applications for management and protection...