This essay was written for an essay competition organised by Pakistan council for Research in Water Resources. It … explains the current water scenario and prediction about future condition. …

Efficient pricing of a resource incorporates both marginal cost of extraction and scarcity rents. Since groundwater … establishing clear groundwater ownership rights, scarcity value frequently goes unrecognized and is difficult to estimate. This … the initial and most challenging step towards efficient groundwater management. Empirical analyses are based on economic …

This paper considers the problem of a water management authority that is faced with the threat of a drought that will … regulation through Open Access mechanisms, ii) the policy of keeping a rationed level of water usage until the water table is … restored, and iii) an economically optimal policy taking account of the probability of a drought and the fact that water is an …

region disrupted trade links and weakened critical but vulnerable region-wide water and energy systems. This paper analyzes …

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 …

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 …

In this paper, it is shown the relationship between coverage in water and sanitation, and hydric disease’s incidence … studied the particular case of its application to the Millennium Development Goals in water and sanitation. …

mitigating erosion on sloping land, stabilizing landscapes, providing clean water, stabilizing and improving agrarian production …. Watershed management is a holistic concept, which tries to integrate several components like soil and water conservation …

In this paper we examine the nexus of water an energy scarcity in South Africa. The fresh water resources of the … country are close to exhaustion (Business Day, 2009; Turton, 2008)⁠, yet safe drinking water is not yet universally available … to all in the country – in spite of a government policy to provide water for basic needs, taken to be 25ℓ per person per …