Download or read book OECD Studies on Water Drying Wells, Rising Stakes Towards Sustainable Agricultural Groundwater Use written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundwater has provided great benefits to agriculture irrigation in semi-arid OECD countries, but its intensive use beyond recharge in certain regions has depleted resources and generated significant negative environmental externalities.