• Management Plan for Rural Groundwater Resources in the Era of Post COVID-19
  • Byung Sun Lee·Sangjin Seo·Gyusang Lee·Seok-Hwan Yoon·Sung-Ho Song*

  • Rural Research Institute, Korea Rural Community Corporation

  • 포스트 코로나 시대 농어촌지하수 관리 방안
  • 이병선·서상진·이규상·윤석환·송성호*

  • 한국농어촌공사 농어촌연구원

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Abstract

This study was conducted to supplement new-normal strategies on management plans of rural groundwater resources in the era of Post COVID-19. Global outbreak of COVID-19 has damaged across all areas including public policy, economics, industrial services, and others without exception, which has resulted in establishing new-normal strategies in order to restore balance and functions as for these areas. The new-normal ones were represented as enhancing preventative management on infectious diseases, expanding non face-to-face services, enhancing protective trades and food securities, and preparing growth policies on public services using the 4th industrial revolution techniques. In this study, G-WASH_AD (Groundwater supply, sanitation, and hygiene with attraction and digitization) was suggested to be new-normal strategies on rural groundwater resources. The G-WASH_AD was consisted of three detailed action plans: a preventative plan on waterborne-diseases of groundwater (PP), a groundwater-tourism plan with rural heritage (GP), and an application plan of the 4th industrial revolution techniques to groundwater facilities and its data (P4). The PP can contribute to protect human health from waterborne-diseases and minimize hazardous effects on crop cultivation. The GP accompanied with high-quality groundwater resources is able to strengthen rural tourism, to promote marketing activities on local agricultural products, and to increase household incomes of rural communities. The P4 can reinforce fast, comfortable, and scientific management on groundwater facilities and its data, creating a virtuous cycle between innovative management on groundwater and growth of technology related to it. Results of the G-WASH_AD strategies can encourage a green growth engine in field of rural groundwater management keeping up with Post COVID-19.


Keywords: Post COVID-19, Groundwater, Waterborne-diseases, Groundwater-tourism, 4th industrial revolution technique

This Article

  • 2022; 27(4): 1-9

    Published on Aug 31, 2022

  • 10.7857/JSGE.2022.27.4.001
  • Received on Jun 16, 2022
  • Revised on Jul 15, 2022
  • Accepted on Aug 10, 2022

Correspondence to

  • Sung-Ho Song
  • Rural Research Institute, Korea Rural Community Corporation

  • E-mail: shsong@ekr.or.kr