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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Main Author:	World Bank Group
Format:	Report
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	GROUNDWATER RURAL WATER SUPPLY URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT DROUGHT WATER DEMAND INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT INSTITUTIONS
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

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spelling	okr-10986-302662021-05-25T09:17:20Z Assessment of Groundwater Challenges and Opportunities in Support of Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa World Bank Group GROUNDWATER RURAL WATER SUPPLY URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT DROUGHT WATER DEMAND INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT INSTITUTIONS 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. 2018-08-21T14:48:56Z 2018-08-21T14:48:56Z 2018-08-01 Report 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 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Namibia
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description	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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title	Assessment of Groundwater Challenges and Opportunities in Support of Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_short	Assessment of Groundwater Challenges and Opportunities in Support of Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_full	Assessment of Groundwater Challenges and Opportunities in Support of Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_fullStr	Assessment of Groundwater Challenges and Opportunities in Support of Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_full_unstemmed	Assessment of Groundwater Challenges and Opportunities in Support of Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_sort	assessment of groundwater challenges and opportunities in support of sustainable development in sub-saharan africa
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2018
url	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
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Assessment of Groundwater Challenges and Opportunities in Support of Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

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