The aim of this paper is to provide astrategic overview of a decade of experience in supportingpublic administrations in their efforts to confrontexcessive groundwater resource exploitation for agriculturalirrigation. Special emphasis is put on a series ofon-the-ground pilot projects mainly in South and East Asiaand Latin America, which are profiled through a series ofboxes introduced in the paper. In these pilots'appropriate packages of technical, economic, institutionaland social measures, in the main selected through use of a'pragmatic framework' for groundwater resourcemanagement, have been introduced with agreement ofstakeholders in an attempt to promote more sustainablegroundwater use in agricultural irrigation. They haveachieved varying degrees of success but do provide hope andorientation for the future in this important aspect of waterresource management.
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