IGRAC will present Groundwater Overview during WWF8

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On Thursday 22 March 2018, IGRAC will launch its 'Groundwater overview: making the invisible visible' during the World Water Day 2018 celebrations at the 8th World Water Forum in Brasilia, Brazil. This official launch will take place at the Planalto Auditorium from 9:00 to 10:30. The groundwater overview is a UN-Water publication. 

About the Groundwater Overview

Globally, invisible groundwater resources are under increasing pressure due to human activities and climate change. Our response to this pressure is often not adequate, also due to limited awareness of the importance of groundwater resources. This Groundwater Overview is prepared to showcase the essentials and the credentials of groundwater, placed within the broad spectrum of UN-Water Member’s and Partner’s activities. It is meant to inform about groundwater-related activities, to enhance knowledge exchange and collaboration, and to raise awareness about our most important hidden resource: groundwater.  

United Nations agencies and programmes, together with their international partners, deal with many issues that involve groundwater: from wetlands to food production, from sanitation to climate change. Due to diversity and complexity of issues, it is often difficult to recognize a role of groundwater and adequately incorporate it in a decision-making process. Understanding complementarities with other issues and using groundwater experience gained elsewhere is not easy either. 

 

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Groundwater overview: making the invisible visible
Groundwater overview: making the invisible visible

This overview presents some interesting facts and figures, revealing diversities, resemblances and complementarities in groundwater-related activities within the UN-Water Member’s and Partner’s community. It is helpful in understanding of connections of groundwater with health, migrations, tourisms, biodiversity, and many other vital segments of our lives. In that way, the overview might also be an additional incentive in taking joint actions across the (organisational, sectoral, administrative…) borders, making the invisible groundwater a bit more visible.