that more educated women complied more with the program's water disinfection training, highlighting that even simple, low …-cost technologies require final users' compliance ("the last mile") to be effective. In the context of growing water scarcity …

We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …

An important conclusion from the literature on hydropower is that if there are no other constraints than the available … water reservoirs for a year, and operating costs are ignored, the competitive (and socially optimal) outcome is … hydropower being non-concave. This non-concavity can be caused by short-run capacity limits either on exports and imports of …

similar hydropower potential. Until mid-century, the availability of cheap local power from hydroelectric dams conveyed an …

Contrary to current notions about water abundance in Lebanon, the country is facing serious problems of unavailability …, i.e. management, ill-finance, non-integration and lack of relevant awareness on water use, the new dimension of climate … change is unfortunately adding to the water problems in the country.Databases in Lebanon are not quite consistent and …

This paper provides an overview of the Italian water management system, with particular reference to the links between … agriculture and water resources, and emphasis on underground resources. Our objective is mainly descriptive at this level …; nonetheless, we try to evaluate patterns of interaction between agriculture and water resources policy from the point of view of …

water for agriculture, domestic and industrial use, and to generate hydropower and control floods, in line with the national … increasing water supply and rationalise water management. According to this approach, large infrastructures are seen as catalysts … for territorial development and economic progress. More recently, international surveys of results of water supply …

Climate change and the increasing demand of water intensify the global water cycle, altering the distribution of water …). As water is key to life, water scarcity is likely to provoke conflict. Using grid-cell data for Africa and central … water mass declines. We measure water mass anomalies based on changes in Earth's gravity field recorded by GRACE and link …

equipped with hydropower generation facilities. The methodology is applied to the Lower Ebro River in Spain. The results show …

in climate patterns is regarded as one of the most challenging issues in recent years. Water resources are a main … component of natural systems that might be affected by climate change. This paper characterises water resources in several …