Groundwater makes up one-third of all freshwater use for drinking water supply and half of the world’s irrigation sources. Access to groundwater has improved millions of small-scale farmers’ livelihoods, especially in arid and semi-arid regions, but increasingly also in more humid areas with growing water demand and increasing variability and less predictability in rainfall seasons.
A team of researchers from the Groundwater Solutions Initiative for Policy and Practice (GRIPP) and the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) – led by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), have published their highly informative and popular infographic, “Groundwater – Critical for Sustainable Development,” in Burmese (the official language of Myanmar).
