The current Water Abstraction License (WAL) regime in Italy is no longer flexible enough to cope with the challenges … of bottom-up conflict resolution mechanisms at a basin scale; a water pricing scheme that does not reflect the cost of … water conveyance and use, and does not encourage efficient water allocation; and the lack of a central WAL register, which …

This article provides an overview of key economic concepts in water services with a focus on price-based strategies for … demand management in the face of resource scarcity using the case of Nairobi city water services. The paper starts by first … presenting key issues and concepts in water economics then looks into detail issues of water pricing and concludes by providing …

Global warming, while increasing human demand for water, is reducing water availability by reducing runoff flows and … the effective amount of water between seasons, making water scarcity a growing problem globally. Water management plays an … important role in mitigating global warming, improving the water cycle, reducing carbon emissions, and providing clean energy …

Water is critical not only to economic progress and sustainable development but most importantly, to human survival …. Yet, the way water is valued suggests an inexhaustible supply, when the opposite is true. This paper examines if water … rights in the Philippines are underpriced and looks at how these can be valued at full economic cost. It finds that water …

In rural and peri‑urban areas of Central America, community water organizations (CWOs) provide water to 60 % of the … environmental, climatic, and institutional factors explaining the adoption of volumetric pricing from these water providers and its … whether volumetric pricing affects the service water delivery in a rural setting, drawing on a random sample of cross …

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

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