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Welcome to the website on Groundwater in Urban Development developed as a joint-venture between the British Geological Survey, DFID, and the World Bank. This website aims to provide a good practice guide to the acquisition of data and the characterisation of groundwater systems for those tasked with the management of urban groundwater. It is designed to help water supply/waste disposal utility managers and city water resource planners better manage the urban subsurface and by so doing enhance the sustainability of vital resources required for future city development. It is especially applicable in the very many situations world-wide where the subsurface is used both as a source of water supply and as a receptor of waste. The main source for this web site is Groundwater in Urban Development: Assessing Management Needs and Formulating Policy Strategies (World Bank Technical Paper No. 390).
The site does this by providing:
- Answers to key questions frequently asked by those tasked with managing urban groundwater in a developing city
- Downloadable operational tools to aid system characterisation and organisation of data (diagrams, checklists, easy-to-enter tables and survey forms)
- Concise illustrative examples of groundwater issues in different developing cities
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