Water pricing is an important way of improving water allocation and encouraging users to conserve scarce water … resources. This work presents water pricing experiences across 22 countries in various sectors and over time. Country cases …

Lakes and reservoirs, which are key components of the world's water resources, are under serious threat(disturbances in … water resources planning. The paper also describes the World Bank's activities in protecting this sector. …

The customary practice of meeting urban water deficit through supply augmentation by tapping distant and multiple …-use water sources often disturbs prevailing sectoral allocation and causes inter-sectoral water conflicts. The common … prescription for resolving such conflicts involves market-based approach to inter-sectoral water allocation. Utilizing both primary …

The water sector has undergone remarkable changes in recent years. While past achievements were associated mainly with … investment in new physical structures, recent developments in the water sector are associated to a greater extent with improved … change and institution-performance interactions in the water sector. …