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This publication provides guidance to
water-sector decision makers and planners on how to deal
with the quality dimension of groundwater resources
management in the World Bank's client countries. There
is growing evidence of increasing pollution threats to
groundwater and some well-documented cases of irreversible
damage to important aquifers. This guide has been produced
in the belief that groundwater pollution hazard assessment
must become an essential part of environmental best practice
for water supply utilities. The guide is particularly
relevant for the World Bank's Latin American and
Caribbean Region, where many countries have initiated major
changes to modernize their institutional and legal framework
for water resources management, but may not yet have
considered groundwater at the same level as surface water,
because of lack of awareness and knowledge of groundwater
issues and policy options.
