Management of Shared Groundwater Resources

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. The Problems And Approaches To Groundwater Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Management of Shared Aquifers

      • Marwan Haddad, Eran Feitelson, Shaul Arlosoroff

      Pages 3-23

   3. The Islamic Approach to the Environment and Sustainable Groundwater Management

      • Marwan Haddad

      Pages 25-39

3. The Israeli-Palestinian Case

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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   2. Overview of the Mountain Aquifer

      • Yoav Harpaz, Marwan Haddad, Shaul Arlosoroff

      Pages 43-56

   3. Water Resource Management in Israel

      • Shaul Arlosoroff

      Pages 57-74

   4. The Need for Joint Management and Monitoring of the Water “Usage” Cycle

      • Karen Assaf

      Pages 75-82

   5. The Turonian-Cenomanian Aquifer

      • Yona Kahane

      Pages 83-105

   6. Legal and Administrative Responsibility of Domestic Water Supply to the Palestinians

      • Taher Nassereddin

      Pages 107-114

   7. Israeli-Palestinian Bargaining over the Mountain Aquifer

      • Sinaia Netanyahu, Richard E. Just, John K. Horowitz

      Pages 115-129

4. International Experience In Cross-Boundary Management And Allocation Of Water Resources

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. From Rights to Needs

      • Aaron T. Wolf

      Pages 133-165

   3. Institutional Cooperation on Groundwater Issues

      • Carel de Villeneuve

      Pages 167-175

   4. Centralized vs. Decentralized Approaches to Groundwater Management and Allocation in the Context of Overdevelopment

      • Gregory A. Thomas

      Pages 177-208

   5. The Evolving International Law of Transnational Aquifers

      • Joseph W. Dellapenna

      Pages 209-257

   6. Water Rights

      • Miguel Solanes

      Pages 259-284

   7. Droughts, Crisis Management and Water Rights

      • Ariel Dinar

      Pages 285-299

5. Monitoring, Modeling And Data Compilation As Prerequisites For Groundwater Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 301-301

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   2. From Monitoring and Modeling to Decision Support Frameworks for the Joint Management of Shared Aquifers

      • Jac A. M. van der Gun

      Pages 303-321

Most of the world's freshwater resources in the liquid state (i.e. not in glaciers and polar caps) are underground. As the population grows and demand for water rises, reliance on groundwater increases. In many cases the groundwater underlies boundaries, or is part of a hydraulic system that crosses boundaries. In such cases there is always the danger that the 'prisoner's dilemma' will run its course and all parties will compete over who will pump the most water, ultimately destroying the storage potential to the detriment of future generations of all parties reliant on the groundwater. This book explores the options and means for averting this all too realistic scenario by managing these shared groundwater resources.
Nowhere is the likelihood of excessive use of groundwater greater than in the water-scarce Middle East, and especially in the Israeli-Palestinian case. Here both sides are heavily reliant on a shared aquifer, the Mountain aquifer. This book is the outcome of a seven-year effort to find ways to manage the Mountain aquifer, perhaps the most important resource shared by Israelis and Palestinians. As part of this cooperative study, four workshops were held in which a selected number of Palestinian, Israeli, and foreign experts were invited. The chapters in this book were originally presented in one of these workshops. To these papers introductory and concluding chapters were added.

• Water Resources
• environment
• groundwater
• research
• water supply
• hydrogeology

`This excellent book should be required reading for water experts and international relations specialists interested in the Middle East peace process.'
Natur Wissenschaften, 88:10 (2001)

• The Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and The Palestine Consultancy Group, Jerusalem

  Eran Feitelson, Marwan Haddad

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