Increases in water demand due to population growth, industrial development and urbanization necessitate economically … efficient use of water resources worldwide. This is particularly true in the dryland zones of the world relying on irrigated … agriculture for economic development such as in Uzbekistan, Central Asia. Due to ill-managed water resources and the dominance of …

With time there has been an unpredictable climate change affecting the requirement of water for agriculture. Survival … of agriculture has become a matter of concern with an efficient management of water. The aim of the chapter is to design … a conceptual framework in sustaining water for agriculture in the era of climate change. The authors in the present …

vulnerability of the economy to these shocks. It helps clarify linkages between the country's economic performance and its water … resources endowment and management. It then uses this analysis to recommend both water resource strategies and economic and …-wide effects of water shocks. This report finds that unmitigated hydrological variability currently costs the economy over one …

Inefficient use of water represents a major source of direct cost of water production, but especially of excessive … the rules of good practice that have been disseminated. This work aims to contribute directly to the reduction of water … consumption and indirectly to the huge amount of energy used to pump water from its reserves and then to treat and make it …

This paper examines the effectiveness of additionality and sustainability criteria being applied to hydropower projects … which hydropower development decisions are commonly made, with a focus on China and India where the majority of CDM … hydropower projects are hosted. We find that the CDM is having little effect on large hydropower development, and that the basic …

Pakistan has not fully harnessed the capacity of its vast hydropower potential for electricity generation. It depends …'s economy. Hydropower can provide an economical, renewable, clean, and secure source of energy for the country. The potential … benefits and prospects of hydropower for Pakistan require a comprehensive review of the hydropower sector to investigate the …