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 transboundary aquifers in different regions of the world as well as some insights on policy development.
Potential strategies and recommendations to support the socio-economic development and the
attainment of the SDGs resulting of the studies are:
- Improvement of the current state of knowledge on the assessment of transboundary aquifers
- Inclusion of stakeholders in the decision-making process
- Effective communication across users and sectors
- Joint data generation and open access to information
The progress of collaborative mechanisms that can support the joint development of physical assessments integrating the socio-economic and institutional conditions at a local and regional scales, seem to be driving the current and future
discussions of the management towards the sustainability of transboundary groundwater resources.
This book is a contribution to the “UN-Water Summit on Groundwater” the culminating event of the UN-Water campaign
“Groundwater: making the invisible visible” that was run throughout all the year 2022.
