Are you a user of groundwater (extraction by well or borehole) or are you a provider (e.g., manager, driller, transporter etc.) of groundwater

Water User

Describe your everyday interactions with groundwater. Consider water collection, water uses, water treatment, water storage, water provision. Consider the setting of this interaction (homestead - local - regional - national - trans-national)

Homestead

Describe your above indicated challenges(s) that you see in relation to groundwater. Consider the prompts above to guide your description if necessary. If you see >1 challenge, write about each challenge in a separate paragraph, making it clear which challenge you are referring to throughout. Make a note of the periodicity of each challenge.

Farmer's use of groundwater is often not regulated. Farmer's idea is that this amount is infinite.

What does an ideal situation look like for addressing the above-described challenge(s) in this context?

Regulating farmer's use of groundwater.

Do you use space technologies within your use / provision / management of groundwater or for any application related to the above-described challenge(s)? 

Yes

If yes, how do you use space technologies within your use / provision / management of groundwater or for any application related to the above-described challenge(s)? 

Using satellite soil moisture (SMAP) products at surface and root zone is a great indicator.

Do you, and if so how, consider that space technologies could help solve the above-described challenge(s) if they’re not already being used? 

The availability of remote sensing in space and time and remote areas is a great help to secure the continuity of the data.

What solutions, other than space based, do you consider for tackling the above-described challenge(s)?

Farmer's surveys

What resources (if any) would you have available to help address the above-described challenge(s)? (e.g. time, financial, technical, software, data, networks)

Technical, data

Do you consider any obstacles in implementing your above described solution(s)?

no