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Groundwater constitutes about 89% of the total fresh water resources in the planet. But in recent years, due to over … exploitation of ground water and erratic nature of monsoon, there has been depletion of ground water across the world. Depletion of … ground water has reached to the extent that it is virtually impossible to get the water table back. Even though there is a …
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In this report, we outline a method for approximating a Markovian (or feedback-Nash) equilibrium of a dynamic game, possibly subject to coupled-constraints. We treat such a game as a "multiple" optimal control problem. A method for approximating a solution to a given optimal control problem via...
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optimum exploitation of water resources in the Egyptian Agriculture, represents one of the most economic issues, that concern … pattern and its restrictions to achieve the maximum profit, and minimization of water requirements for the cropped pattern …, that are used in irrigation through the optimum use of the available inputs, i.e., land, water irrigation, agricultural …
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Nearly nine million children under five years of age die annually. Diarrhea is considered to be the second leading cause of Under-5 mortality in developing countries. About one out of five deaths are caused by diarrhea. In this paper, we use the newly available data set DLHS-3 to quantify the...
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Since the Great Depression of the 1930s, it was common knowledge in the Latin American water and sanitation sector the …
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consumption of production factors, among them, water and energy, essential to most productive activities. However, as the supply … are the more demanding on the consumption of water and electric power due to variations in the final demand, as well as … this paper is to identify the main demanding sectors of water and electric power of Ceará and to estimate the impact in the …
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Universal access to water is acknowledged as a fundamental human right which governments have to secure. To improve … access to water, it has been argued that an important factor, if not the most important, is to strengthen water sector … governance and reduce corruption. Looking at the relationship between governance indicators and access to water sources and …
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formal link between water consumption and economic growth and development. This is accomplished by linking an econometric … development in the next will be access to water. In recognition of this emerging problem, the present research aims to provide a … input-output model of the Northeast Brazil economy to a water allocation model. The work can be considered as an important …
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-market institution (fixed quotas with a ban on trading) to allocate water. This water is used by farmers for agricultural purposes; some …
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This report reviews recent trends in household access to infrastructure services and associated budgetary expenditures in Africa. It is based on a pooled database that draws upon the entire body of household surveys conducted in sub-Saharan Africa in the last 15 years.
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