Groundwater in rural development : facing the challenges of supply and resource sustainability (English)

Some 200 million people lived on Planet Earth at the start of the modern era. That number rose to 2.5 billion by 1950. At mid-2008, the population is now 7.0 billion and is expected to reach 9.0 billion by 2040. It thus took 1,950 years for the global population to grow ten-fold but only an additional 58 years to nearly triple. And throughout this period the global availability of water resources has remained more or less constant. Growing ever more...

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Cardy,W. Franklin;

Chilton, John;

Foster,James Stephen;

MOENCH, MARCUS H.;

Schiffler,Manuel;
Document Date
2008/10/01
Document Type
Brief
Report Number
46471
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
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World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Groundwater in rural development : facing the challenges of supply and resource sustainability
Keywords
groundwater

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Cardy,W. Franklin; Chilton, John; Foster,James Stephen; MOENCH, MARCUS H.; Schiffler,Manuel.

Groundwater in rural development : facing the challenges of supply and resource sustainability (English). Water P-Notes ; no. 19 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/575801468167381067

Groundwater in rural development : facing the challenges of supply and resource sustainability (English)

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