Assessment of Groundwater Challenges and Opportunities in Support of Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
The report confirms that groundwater, if managed sustainably, can be an important development resource across the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region. The report presents data related to groundwater resource characteristics and highlights the opportuni...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/420291533931251279/Assessment-of-groundwater-challenges-opportunities-in-support-of-sustainable-development-in-Sub-Saharan-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30266 |
| Summary: | The report confirms that groundwater, if
managed sustainably, can be an important development
resource across the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region. The
report presents data related to groundwater resource
characteristics and highlights the opportunities and
challenges presented in promoting sustainable and resilient
groundwater development in the region. Groundwater has
significant potential to support human and economic
development in SSA, as it has done in other global regions.
The report recommends investment in expanding groundwater
development as an integral component of national water
resources strategy for countries in SSA. Investment in
groundwater can be financially viable and a wise policy
option to support socioeconomic development if safeguards
specific to groundwater are incorporated into
investmentprograms. The expansion should be designed within
a sustainable framework responsive to thespecial social and
cultural and economic features of groundwater resources,
compounded bytheir special hydrological, environmental and
engineering dimensions to guide sustainabledevelopment of
this important component of water resources. |
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