" measure of water supply. Empirically tested in the Tuscany region (Italy), our findings reveal significant changes in the … water resources. For a better understanding of the sectoral and total impacts, three innovations are incorporated with … respect to previous literature: i) the development of a methodology for disaggregating the extended water demand (blue water …

We will embark on a journey in three parts. Part One, about our "water planet," sets the stage for water use, water … Riess, with its relevance to providing much-needed additional supplies of potable fresh water, particularly in the Middle … East. In Part Three we will address the interface between water resources and water rights in the Middle East, considering …

Virtual Water has been criticized as merely being a jargon camouflaging crop-water requirements. This paper attempts to … contest this argument. From the neoclassical production theory, it is argued that virtual water cannot simply be expressed in … terms of crop-water requirements. Rather, the notion of virtual water imports has deep economics embedded in it, along with …

This paper proposes a novel mechanism for reallocating temporary water flows or permanent water rights. The All …-in-Auction (AiA) increases efficiency and social welfare by reallocating water without harming water rights holders. AiAs can be used … organizations that distribute water among members, e.g., irrigation districts or wholesale water agencies. Members would decide when …

water allocation mechanism in the presence of frictions, by exploring a particular historical institutional change in Mula …

Generalized cost recovery is one of the basic principles of the new Water Law that has recently been adopted by the … surveys in an urban and a rural area in southern Madagascar, this study analyzes the effect of changes in prices for water … recovery seems therefore impossible and subsidies are necessary to increase access to improved water services. Cost recovery …

Too many drinking water and wastewater systems across Canada threaten public health and the environment. In this report …, the author writes that many of the municipally owned and operated systems that treat and distribute drinking water perform … 1,000 systems across Canada violate provincial requirements or are subject to boil-water advisories. Brubaker recommends …

This paper proposes a novel mechanism for reallocating temporary water flows or permanent water rights. The All …-in-Auction (AiA) increases efficiency and social welfare by reallocating water without harming water rights holders. AiAs can be used … organizations that distribute water among members, e.g., irrigation districts or wholesale water agencies. Members would decide when …

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 …

We survey the economics of transboundary river water allocation, which emerged in the 1960s and has matured over the … last decade due to increasing concerns over water scarcity and pollution. We outline the major approaches and pay specific … attention to the strategic aspects of transboundary river water allocation. These strategic aspects are captured by employing …