The Drought Management Plans (DMPs) are a regulatory instrument that establishes priorities among the different water … uses and defines more stringent constraints to access to publicly provided water during droughts, especially for non … activities exposed to water restrictions. This paper develops a stochastic methodology to estimate the expected water …

The current Water Abstraction License (WAL) regime in Italy is no longer flexible enough to cope with the challenges … of bottom-up conflict resolution mechanisms at a basin scale; a water pricing scheme that does not reflect the cost of … water conveyance and use, and does not encourage efficient water allocation; and the lack of a central WAL register, which …

A great challenge facing future agricultural water policy is to explore the potential for transition from the current … myopic competitive (common) exploitation of groundwater resources to a long-term efficient and sustainable allocation. A … number of economic and/or command and control instruments can be used by the relevant water authority in order to deal with …

, extreme monsoon rainfall and sea level rise. Water is emerging as a new possible irritant between China and India. For India …, Water of Brahmaputra constitutes a major lifeline for people of Tibet and North Eastern states. The building of dams and … requirement of fresh water as the pollution grows and population rise has forced China to have the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra River …

Water is a multidimensional issue, involving water availability, access to freshwater, spatial and temporal … other aspects. The water security approach manages such complexity and proposes a comprehensive view of human security in … relation to the water-related issues. Consequently, the solutions developed in order to face this multi-faceted concept should …