{"id":704,"date":"2021-06-16T11:43:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T11:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundacionbotin.org\/en\/?post_type=programas&#038;p=704"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:55:47","slug":"groundwater","status":"publish","type":"programas","link":"https:\/\/fundacionbotin.org\/en\/programmes\/groundwater\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundwater"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Water Observatory analyses groundwater from an inter and multidisciplinary perspective, looking primarily, not at the classical hydrogeology and groundwater hydrology, but giving great weight to economic, environmental, legal and social aspects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Numerous documents have been published on this topic. During the years 2000-2003, a series of 13 monographs was published, called&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fundacionbotin.org\/observatory-area\/groundwater-papers-pas.html\">Groundwater Project Papers (PAS &#8211; Papeles del Projecto Aguas Subterr\u00e1neas)<\/a>, and six books published by Mundi Prensa. In 2009 an informative book in coordination with IGME, the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science and UNESCO on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fundacionbotin.org\/89dguuytdfr276ed_uploads\/Observatorio%20Tendencias\/FORMACION\/educacion%20ambiental.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8216;<em>Las aguas subterr\u00e1neas: Un recurso natural del subsuelo<\/em>&#8216;<\/a>&nbsp;was published. In recent years, 2015 and 2016, two doctoral thesis have ben published on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/eprints.ucm.es\/31040\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8216;<em>Flujos, huellas y valores: visiones y decisiones sobre el agua subterr\u00e1nea en Espa\u00f1a<\/em>&#8216;<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/eprints.ucm.es\/38258\/1\/T37444.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8216;<em>An\u00e1lisis de las acciones colectivas en la gobernanza del agua subterr\u00e1nea en Espa\u00f1a<\/em>&#8216;<\/a>. In 2017 a book on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crcpress.com\/Advances-in-Groundwater-Governance\/Villholth-Lopez-Gunn-Conti-Garrido-Gun\/p\/book\/9781138029804\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8216;<em>Advances in Groundwater Governance<\/em>&#8216;<\/a>&nbsp;together with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) has been published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Water Observatory analyses groundwater from an inter and multidisciplinary perspective, looking primarily, not at the classical hydrogeology and groundwater hydrology, but giving great weight to economic, environmental, legal and social aspects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":430,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-704","programas","type-programas","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Groundwater - 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