Groundwater Sustainability - The Role of Managed Aquifer Recharge, Participatory Monitoring and Supply and Demand Side Management

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable use of groundwater is becoming critical in many parts of the world and requires effective strategies for recharge, demand management, and participation from local communities along with technical, social, economic, gender, policy, governance, and political inputs. Access to groundwater for farming communities is also an emotional and complex issue, as their livelihood and survival depends on it. Transdisciplinary approaches are required to understand the issues, challenges, and options for improving the sustainability of groundwater use.

Hydrological analyses can be pivotal in understanding the role of recharge structures and managed aquifer recharge activities for their contribution to urban and rural water security and agricultural production. Further, developing effective policies to manage groundwater at regional, state or national level is often constrained due to a paucity of data and information. As such, we need innovative approaches and data analysis techniques to understand the current groundwater situation and future scenarios to provide input to policy making and groundwater governance. Another area of critical importance regarding groundwater sustainability is to develop and implement suitable participatory approaches and methodologies with associated tools that will assist in managing supply and demand of groundwater.

In this Special Issue, we invite articles that focus on the sustainability of groundwater use through an understanding of recharge processes, interventions that reduce groundwater use, introduction of social, economic, cultural, and political perspectives for groundwater management, and exploration of participatory and cooperative approaches for local engagement. We also encourage articles that use transdisciplinary approaches to tackle groundwater sustainability challenges in urban, peri-urban, and rural landscapes.

Prof. Dr. Basant Maheshwari
Dr. Dharma Hagare
Dr. Pennan Chinnasamy
Guest Editors

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• groundwater recharge
• groundwater management
• socioeconomic analyses
• community engagement
• managed aquifer recharge
• demand management
• groundwater governance
• water policy
• groundwater and gender
• water productivity