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urban areas is having a significant impact on the quantity and quality of water available as inputs into the production and … consumption process, as well as the ability of the water system to absorb and neutralize the waste byproducts deposited into it …. Water shortages are most severe in the north of the country, where surface water diversion is excessive and groundwater is …
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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 …
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We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …
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similar hydropower potential. Until mid-century, the availability of cheap local power from hydroelectric dams conveyed an …
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increasingly to hydropower generation in recent years because it is renewable energy. However, hydropower is among the most … vector autoregressive model to forecast future hydrological series and evaluate the resulting impact on hydropower projects … discharges tend to increase with rainfall and decrease with temperature. The rainy season would likely have higher water levels …
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Water policy is an important topic on the agenda of the international community, and efficiency and equity in the … allocation of water have emerged as important factors to be considered. Water pricing can be used to mitigate both the quantity … and quality dimensions of water scarcity. This paper reviews partial equilibrium models and general equilibrium models …
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The pressure on an already stressed water situation in South Africa is predicted to increase significantly under … to water to millions of previously excluded people. The present study employed a general equilibrium approach to examine … the economy-wide impacts of selected macro and water related policy reforms on water use and allocation, rural livelihoods …
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in the water sector. Two main participatory approaches have been applied separately, namely negotiation and mediation. In … mediated mechanism to a water allocation problem in the Kat watershed in South Africa. While the absolute results of the two …
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