Abstract
The psychologist Abraham Maslow developed a pyramid of human social needs. A comparable pyramidal hierarchy of groundwater needs can be envisaged. In the pyramid of social needs, until lower level needs are fulfilled, higher level needs remain irrelevant to people. Analogously, only once a society's basic groundwater concerns are fulfilled can groundwater management decision-makers hope to press onwards towards an ultimate goal of attaining sustainable groundwater resources development. Groundwater resources of the Sharon region of Israel's coastal aquifer can be taken as a case in point. To effectively carry out management recommendations for achieving sustainable groundwater development, technical concerns must be integrated with social concerns. Alignment between comparable levels of the pyramids of social and groundwater needs can only be achieved by educating the society to perceive the significance of sustainable resource development for future generations. Only then will the society be fully prepared to pay the price for such development and to participate in the long-term environmental planning required.
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