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 …

The design of effective market institutions for allocation of water among competing uses remains an economic challenge … externality which complicates transfers between consumptive and environmental water users, leading to the slow evolution of this … opportunity costs of water transfers, paving the way for a centralized market mechanism for water transfers among consumptive and …

Over the last few decades, Morocco has been undergoing a strong and fast water demand increase due to demographic … continued increase of water demand has imposed a height pressure over national scare water resources. Despite this worrying … situation, the imperative of sustainable water use and management has created a need for compulsory information to define and …

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 …

The paper examines the possibility of a water market in Brazil. The US market, probably the oldest and most well …-documented one, is initially analyzed. In the American West, over the past 140 years the so-called "water rights" can be sold or …, it is clear that the country does not have the problem of water availability that the American West has. On the other …

In dieser Untersuchung wird die Bedeutung der Ressource Wasser als Standortfaktor für die bayerische Wirtschaft und den … untersucht. Für die meisten Wirtschaftszweige ist Wasser ein wichtiger Produktionsfaktor, sie sind jedoch unterschiedlich von der … Strategien für den Schutz der Ressource Wasser und zur Förderung der Wasserwirtschaft entwickelt. …

This study analyzes the stock returns and volatility of the global water industry in different (full, pre-GFC, GFC and … post-GFC) periods. The study estimates ARMA (1, 1)-GARCH (1, 1) and EGARCH (1, 1) models on the World Water index (WOWAX …), S-Network Global Water Index (S-Net), S&P Global Water Index (S&P), and MSCI ACWI Water Utilities Index (MSCI ACWI), the …

approaches. The field of water relations is no exception, as their effective existence requires constant analysis and innovation … regulating water relations in Central Asia. The methods of analysis, comparison, deduction, generalization, and the formal …-legal method were used in the study. As a result, it has been possible to uncover the content and significance of water relations …