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Approaches to the management and protection of groundwater resources have developed in parallel with our understanding of the economic and environmental implications of groundwater exploitation. In developed countries, with the availability of a dense network of field monitoring data and remotely sensed information for the quantification, modelling and reporting of water resources within existing regulatory frameworks, there is a good understanding of the distribution, size and utilization of groundwater resources. In this section, patterns of groundwater abstraction, as well as regulations for the management of groundwater resources, are described for several industrialized regions of the world (the United Kingdom, Europe, Canada and the United States), as well as the rapidly developing country of China.