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E2 - Prevention of Aquifer Pollution

… The class highlights how quantity and quality control of groundwater are interrelated because unsuitable abstraction … in land-use and pollution management has to be involved in groundwater quality protection and included in the scope of … exercise the participants will be asked to strengthen the groundwater pollution provisions in a fictitious domestic …
20 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches

… stream resulting from the outflow of permanent or perched groundwater and from the drainage of lakes and swamps during … the joint or coordinated management of surface water and groundwater, in particular regarding the inflow and reservoir … functions of aquifers, for the sustainable extraction of groundwater. connectivity: the physical connection between …
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Issues in water law reform

… surface waters 10 2.4 Techniques for qualifying rights in groundwater 13 2.5 Categories of administrative 15 3. … surface water collecting or falling on private land; • groundwater percolating through land. Arid conditions, … century. Legislative intervention to qualify rules about groundwater happened concurrently in New South Wales, where …
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The greening of water law: Managing freshwater resources for people and the environment

… Life Years EIA Environmental Impact Assessment GWD Groundwater Directive IGRAC International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre IIL Institute of … 103 7. Controlling groundwater exploitation to ensure their ecosystem support …
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Introduction to Freshwater Resources - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… 1. Introduction 2. Regulation 3. The Hydrological Cycle Groundwater 5. Water Scarcity Climate Change 6. Water … action and evaporate, or may percolate downward to become groundwater. The area on the land surface where infiltration … This may lie a considerable distance from the place where groundwater is withdrawn or emerges naturally, for example, …
20 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

A2 - Integrating Environmental Concerns in National Water Law

… services in water-related charging 5.9. Restricting groundwater extractions to safeguard groundwater’s ecosystem-support function 5.10. Downscaling … and fertilizers, in a manner that does not pollute groundwater or surface waters. Also regulated are changes in …
20 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use

… inland wetlands or reach the sea in deltas. Upwellings of groundwater in arid countries can form springs, salt lakes, … wetlands have more or less permanent water, fed by groundwater, surface springs, streams or run-off, and tend to … stability in several parts of the world; • discharge of groundwater, whereby excess water is drained away into rivers …
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Commodities at a Glance - Special issue on Shale Gas

… 13 a. Groundwater contamination … Fracturing Overall project Fracturing Overall project Groundwater contamination Moderate–High High  Moderate–High … gas operations, on the quality of such resources through groundwater or surface water contamination. This concern is …
20 Jun 2026 Literature

Sources of international water law

… 1,350 tonnes. . . . 11. Large dams and reservoirs. 12. Groundwater abstraction activities in cases where the annual … in the Field of Transboundary Waters; the ECE Charter on Groundwater Management; and the Code of Conduct on Accidental … protected waters and their environment, e.g. lakes and groundwater resources; (e) be based on the application of …
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Towards a Pollution Free Planet - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… oil and gas exploration and oil sands can accumulate in groundwater, lakes and reservoirs, explosive methane levels, … toxicity (Baldé illegally dumped e-waste into surface and groundwater. 32 Towards a Pollution-Free Planet caused by …
20 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance