Water balances pertaining to the flux of water through the Volta River Basin and a black box model of the rainfall …/runoff relationship for estimating the river flows into the Akosombo Reservoir are presented. As the water demand has approached supply …, the tradeoffs between competing water uses are likely to intensify. It is also apparent from the balances that land use …

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 …

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 …

Dams are essential for water storage and hydropower generation, but change river flow patterns and endanger local … regarding installed hydropower capacity and dam location instead of the standard economic assumptions of such costs. Our results …

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 …

Water has always been a source of risks and opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa. Yet rapidly changing … socioeconomic, political, and environmental conditions make water security a different, and more urgent, challenge than ever before …. This report shows that achieving water security means much more than coping with water scarcity. It means managing water …