Estado actual del Monitoreo de agua subterránea en América Latina e Introducción al programa GGMN // Current Status of Groundwater Monitoring in Latin America and Introduction to the GGMN Program

Groundwater monitoring is the main tool to know the general behavior of an aquifer, which allows improving its management and taking measures for its sustainable use. Lack of systematic groundwater monitoring is one of the obstacles to sustainable management. For this reason, the International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre (IGRAC), located in Delft (The Netherlands) has developed the Global Groundwater Monitoring Network (GGMN), a program that aims to improve the quality and accessibility of groundwater monitoring information at a global level and subsequently the knowledge on the state of groundwater resources. Similarly, the Regional Center for Groundwater Management (CeReGAS), located in Montevideo (Uruguay) is an organization that aims to support Latin American countries to improve the sustainable management of their groundwater resources by providing scientific and technical capabilities to support the sustainable development of the resource through an integrated approach. In this work, CeReGAS and IGRAC, through the GGMN program, present an approach to the status of quantitative groundwater monitoring in Latin America. The study shows that diverse conditions can be found in the region. Analyses and their results are presented, with examples of national networks in Brazil and Chile, local networks, as is the case in Argentina, and the absence of monitoring networks, as is the case in Honduras. (17) (PDF) Estado actual del Monitoreo de agua subterránea en América Latina e Introducción al programa GGMN // Current Status of Groundwater Monitoring in Latin America and Introduction to the GGMN Program. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344244294_Estado_actual_del_Mo… [accessed Feb 23 2022].