One of the Sustainable Development Goals (Goal 6) set by the United Nations is to provide people with access to water and sanitation through sustainable water resources management. Water supply companies carrying out tasks commissioned by local authorities ensure there is an optimal amount of...

Household water insecurity harms quality of life outcomes beyond health, for example the disutility of worrying about water availability or anger at disrupted plans. However, these outcomes are excluded from cost-benefit analyses of water supply interventions, which typically measure and value...

The necessity of detection of nitrite as a challenging compound in food industrials always has been considered. Addressed herein, two transition metal oxide based nanocatalysts, NiO ‐ Co3O4 (NC) and its reduced graphene hybridized form, NiO ‐ Co3O4 ‐ rGO (NCR), was prepared by a...

The development of electrocatalyst that show multifunctionality towards efficient sensing and energy applications are of significant interest. Herein, we report a rational design of photochemical deposition of Ag nanoparticles (Ag NPs) on ZIF-67-decorated carbon nanotube (Ag NPs/ZIF-67@CNT)...

The development of electrocatalyst that show multifunctionality towards efficient sensing and energy applications are of significant interest. Herein, we report a rational design of photochemical deposition of Ag nanoparticles (Ag NPs) on ZIF-67-decorated carbon nanotube (Ag NPs/ZIF-67@CNT)...

The cost and time burdens of obtaining water are expected to rise as climate change-induced water shortages increase in frequency and severity. This paper estimates the increased costs of water provisioning that occur due to weather shocks for vulnerable households and documents the inequitable...

Common resources may be managed with inefficient policies for the sake of equity. We study how rationing the commons shapes the efficiency and equity of resource use, in the context of agricultural groundwater use in Rajasthan, India. We find that rationing binds on input use, such that farmers,...

Limited research has been undertaken on significant factors associated with transitions between drinking water supply systems (DWSS) ladders. In this paper, we applied panel ordered logistic Multinomial Logistic Regression models to six data sets of the Uganda Demographic and Health Survey...

This paper is an empirical application that combines averting behavior with contingent valuation data. Consistency tests are performed incorporating alternative heteroscedastic structures in the bivariate probit models by taking advantage of the different information content that characterizes...

This paper analyzes users' willingness to pay (WTP) for safe drinking water in a resource-poor region in West Bengal, India, with dangerously high groundwater arsenic concentrations. The study was carried out during the installation of an Electro Chemical Arsenic Remediation (ECAR) water...

This paper is a survey of the Italian bottled water industry that with quantitative approach relates the consumes or operative volumes of mineral water market based on the middle trend of temperatures, the consumed income per-capita and the trend of the population. We present the weight-OLS...

Purpose This study aims to test the role of the state of occupation, represented in Israel, as one of the most significant challenges, which faces the Jordanian water security. Where Israel expands in its policy and ideology everyday its hydro-hegemony over the Jordanian waters. Hence, its acts...

This study develops a model of water extraction with endogenous social norms. Many users are connected by a unique shared resource that can become scarce in case of over-exploitation. Preferences of individuals are guided by their extraction values and their taste for conformity to social norms...

This brief for policy makers is a summary of the main conclusions derived from the "Argentina: Valuing Water" report, a detailed and technical water security diagnostic, and is designed for decision makers beyond the water sector. Its main purpose is to make visible the importance of water, and...

Water is an increasingly scarce resource. It is often distributed such that consumers do not face any marginal cost of consumption, creating a common pool problem. For instance, tenants in multi-family buildings can often consume both hot and cold water at zero marginal cost. Using...

This report assesses water security in Argentina, using a conceptual framework developed by the World Bank. The effects of the pandemic reinforce the importance of safe access to water, hygiene, and sanitation, both as the first barrier against virus transmission and as an essential factor...

When consumption of water and other utilities is measured collectively and payment for such services is equally shared among members of the group, individuals may use more than what is socially optimal. In this paper, we evaluate how installation of individual meters affects water consumption....

Water rights and their associated infrastructure support human needs and wants, from agriculture to drinking water to industrial uses, but also impose significant external costs, including impacts on infrastructure, ecosystems, food production, and other human uses. In some cases, these costs...

We examine the impact of piped water on the under-1 infant mortality rate (IMR) in Brazil using a novel econometric procedure for the estimation of quantile treatment effects with panel data. The provision of piped water in Brazil is highly correlated with other observable and unobservable...

The alarming rise in drinking water pollution across the U.S. is often attributed to cost cutting pressures faced by local officials. We know little, however, about why these pressures are so severe for some cities compared to others. We present a new theory to argue that an important...

Household drinking water quality is dependent on a number of determinants which could be arising at the source, during transportation or due to storage and handling practices. The challenge is even big in urban settings that are often characterized by exponential population growth, increased...

The design of effective market institutions for allocation of water among competing uses remains an economic challenge both at a theoretical and practical level. The public good characteristic of instream flows adds another layer of externality which complicates transfers between consumptive and...

Drinking water is already a scarce resource in India as the estimated per capita availability of freshwater is 1545 m3/year (2011 census) that falls below the benchmark of minimum requirement. As India owns about 16 percent of the world's population as compared to only 4 percent of its water...

This study focused on the brand equity that affects brand loyalty of the bottled mineral drinking water by integrating brand equity and brand loyalty models. This study adopted self-administered questionnaires to collect data and used quantitative data analysis. Four hundred of customers who...

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el estado actual de la regulación, la estructura y valores tarifarios para la recuperación de los costos de los sistemas de agua potable y saneamiento en América Latina y el Caribe, actualizando y complementando los aportes de trabajos previos...

Climate change exacerbates the challenges that water management nowadays has to deal with. This highlights the need for a legal framework that promotes adaptation by addressing the ecological value of water and the risks of flooding and drought. This paper analyzes to what extent the European...

The efficiency properties of price and non-price instruments for conservation in environmental policy are well understood. Yet, there is little evidence comparing the effectiveness of these instruments, especially when considering water resource management. We exploit a rich panel of residential...

The lack of quality guarantee of drinking water produced then the community should be protected from the risk of water-borne diseases due to consumption of drinking water comes from refill drinking water depot that does not meet quality standards and sanitation hygiene requirements. The study...

Water is an increasingly scarce resource. It is often distributed such that consumers do not face any marginal cost of consumption, creating a common pool problem. For instance, tenants in multi-family buildings can often consume both hot and cold water at zero marginal cost. Using...

In the United States the idea that household water for drinking and basic hygiene is a constitutional right has seldom been embraced. The U.S. Constitution does not directly mention water. The United States even abstained from the United Nations vote to recognize an international human right to...