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This handbook has been developed to provide instruction on the design and implementation of incentives for resource-efficiency purposes. The target audience is World Bank staff and stakeholders who are supporting the implementation of a resource-efficiency program in a country on behalf of the...
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For the use of water markets to introduce improve water resources management, the existence of adequate institutional … effective water resources management through use of the market mechanism. …
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Many developing countries sharing water resources of international river basins are facing serious problems in meeting …
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Water resources in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have become a strategic commodity, with supply limited in terms of quantity … document is based on the principle that water is a scarce good with dimensions of economic efficiency, social equity, and … environmental sustainability. The strategy recommends an integrated, cross-sectoral, catchment area approach to water resources …
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Water pricing is an important way of improving water allocation and encouraging users to conserve scarce water … resources. This work presents water pricing experiences across 22 countries in various sectors and over time. Country cases …
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Lakes and reservoirs, which are key components of the world's water resources, are under serious threat(disturbances in … water resources planning. The paper also describes the World Bank's activities in protecting this sector. …
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This is a comparative study of the legal framework for water users' associations (WUAs) in six countries, namely …, Colombia, India, Mexico, Nepal, the Philippines and Turkey. The study postulates that, since water is becoming an increasingly … scarce resource and irrigation is the single largest user of water, every effort should be made to achieve efficient use of …
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This volume is based on a review of the evolving groundwater situation during the 1990s in a substantial number of developing nations. It aims to raise awareness of the key linkages between groundwater and rural development and to identify appropriate technical and institutional approaches for...
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Overcoming the scarcity and temporal variance of water availability in semi-arid regions, or the excess of water in …
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