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The surge of Residential Fresh Water Demand (RFWD) has raised great concern for China’s water supply and understanding … the driving forces of RFWD is critical to maintain a sufficient water supply. Drawing on the panel dataset from 31 Chinese … as local social norms regarding hygiene habits and water resource use. Our estimation results indicate that the rapid …
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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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Many African countries have seen the passing of new water laws. Reflecting international discourses on IWRM, they put … the use, management and value of water in an eco-systemic perspective, while they reflect the Dublin principles with … water policies have to be understood as contextually embedded. Negotiation processes around water reforms are historically …
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For many years, water resources management in Vietnam was concentrated on activities ensuring the available freshwater … for agricultural production, including flood control. With the increase of water demands and the emergence of new water … economic transition process, the water sector has undergone a series of reforms, including various attempts to integrate …
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This paper provides a typology of water storage technologies in the Abay sub-basin of the Blue Nile River basin from …
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This paper proposes that transboundary water governance needs to become an essential input to sustainable governance of … the factors behind successful practices. Successful transboundary governance of water and nature requires the reduction of … associated transaction costs. Firstly, water diplomacy through joint research, data collection and monitoring, capacity building …
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water transit as well as its high business potential. Data from geographic information system (GIS) mapping, a survey among …
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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 …
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