only modest costs to growth and employment, European Union (EU) emissions trading for energy-intensive sectors sets a …

urban areas is having a significant impact on the quantity and quality of water available as inputs into the production and … consumption process, as well as the ability of the water system to absorb and neutralize the waste byproducts deposited into it …. Water shortages are most severe in the north of the country, where surface water diversion is excessive and groundwater is …

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 …

Executive summary -- Water security -- Profiling water security in the Middle East and North Africa -- The water …