Agricultural water is a preferred source for meeting growing demands, but permanent transfers often require formerly irrigated land to be fallowed, removing a key industry from the regional economy. One alternative allows farmers to lease water to cities by fallowing their land on a rotational...

The paper introduces and applies a methodology to screen investments aimed at reducing water supply risks due to hydrologic failures in headwork systems for municipal use, based on the principles of cost-benefit analysis. As risk includes both the probability of a failure and its effect, the...

¿Por qué ha crecido tanto el interés en los bancos de aguas? Porque son una respuesta al aumento de las demandas y de la competencia por el agua, tendencias que conllevan un aumento de la escasez relativa y de los conflictos. Mi objetivo en este documento es destacar la gama de experiencias...