Acronyms

Abstraction Licensing Strategy

Arizona Department of Water Resources

Arizona Water Banking Authority

Catchment Abstraction Management Strategies

Central Arizona Project

National Water Commission of Mexico

Technical committees for groundwater, Mexico

Council for Sustainable Water Use in Agriculture

Desired future conditions

Environmental flow indicator

European Union

Groundwater conservation district

Guadiana District Management Plan, Spain

Gujarat Electricity Board, India

Giga litres

Groundwater management unit

NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment

La Loi sur l’Eau et les Milieux Aquatiques, France (Law on Water and Freshwater Ecosystems)

Non governmental organisation

National Water Reserves Programme, Mexico

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

organismes uniques de gestion collective, France(single collective management bodies)

Payment for ecosystem services

River basin council

River basin organisation

Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of California

Storage and recovery

Kumamoto Technology Centre

Total economic value

Texas Water Development Board

Upper Guardiana Special Plan

United Nations

United States

EU Water Framework Directive

zone de repartition d’eau, France (water distribution area)