Overview of groundwater in the Nile River Basin.

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cg.contributor.crpWater, Land and Ecosystems
cg.coverage.countryUganda
cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
cg.coverage.countrySudan
cg.coverage.countryEgypt
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2UG
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ET
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2SD
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2EG
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionNorthern Africa
cg.creator.identifierPaul Pavelic: 0000-0003-0975-9884
cg.identifier.wlethemeLand and Water Productivity
cg.identifier.wlethemeManaging Resource Variability and Competing Use
cg.placeAbingdon, Oxon (UK)en
cg.river.basinNILEen
cg.subject.wleGROUNDWATERen
cg.subject.wleHYDROLOGY/HYDROGEOLOGYen
cg.subject.wleWATER VARIABILITYen
cg.subject.wleINSTITUTIONS/GOVERNANCE/POLICIES/REFORMSen
dc.contributor.authorMacAlister, C.en
dc.contributor.authorPavelic, Paulen
dc.contributor.authorTindimugaya, C.en
dc.contributor.authorAyenew, T.en
dc.contributor.authorIbrahim, M. E.en
dc.contributor.authorMeguid, M. A.en
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-15T08:44:17Zen
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-02T16:39:50Zen
dc.date.available2013-11-15T08:44:17Zen
dc.date.available2014-02-02T16:39:50Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/34696
dc.titleOverview of groundwater in the Nile River Basin.en
dcterms.abstractGroundwater is gaining increasing recognition as a vital and essential source of safe drinking water throughout the Nile Basin, and the demands in all human-related sectors are growing. The technical and regulatory frameworks to enable sustainable allocation and use of the resource, accounting for environmental service requirements, are largely not in place. The hydrogeological systems, and the communities they support, are highly heterogeneous across the basin, ranging from shallow local aquifers (which are actively replenished by rainfall recharge, meeting village-level domestic and agricultural needs) through to deep regional systems (which contain non-replenishable reserves being exploited on a large scale). A uniform approach to management under such circumstances is inappropriate. The database and monitoring systems to support groundwater management are weak or non-existent. With few exceptions, groundwater represents an unrecognized, shared resource among the Nile countries. Most Nile countries have strategic plans to regulate and manage groundwater resources but, so far, these largely remain on paper, and have not been implemented.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMacAlister, Charlotte; Pavelic, Paul; Tindimugaya, C.; Ayenew, T.; Ibrahim, M. E.; Meguid, M. A. 2012. Overview of groundwater in the Nile River Basin. In Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele; Smakhtin, Vladimir; Molden, David; Peden D. (Eds.). The Nile River Basin: water, agriculture, governance and livelihoods. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp.186-211.en
dcterms.extentp. 186-211en
dcterms.issued2012
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherRoutledgeen
dcterms.subjectgroundwateren
dcterms.subjectwater managementen
dcterms.subjectwater qualityen
dcterms.subjecthydrogeologyen
dcterms.subjectegypten
dcterms.subjectmonitoringen
dcterms.subjectassessmenten
dcterms.subjectpoliciesen
dcterms.subjectinstitutionsen
dcterms.typeBook Chapter

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