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workshop of the world. The associated relocation of the population from relatively low density rural areas to very high density … 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 …
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management to operate and maintain existing infrastructure, plan and implement the allocation of water, and address problems that … affect basin-level water resources. The Brantas River basin is located within the province of East Java in Indonesia. It has …, flood warning, flood management, and so on). The institutional arrangement for water resources management in the Brantas …
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"The authors focus on policy interventions for improving irrigation water allocation decisions by including both macro … that affect the water sector. Both direct and indirect effects of these interventions are identified. The top-down (macro …-to-micro) links are of a trade reform type. The bottom-up (micro-to-macro) links pertain to changes in farm water assignments and the …
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In the early 1990s Mexico City's Federal District (the D.F.) initiated a series of service contracts with four operators in the private sector, each to be implemented in three stages over ten years. The idea was to introduce competitive pressures and to find out if a "gradualist" aaproach would...
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That Lima's water system was in near-crisis was not enough to bring about radical change. Partial reforms to reduce … access to water or sewerage connections, extended service interruptions were common and more than a third of the scarce water … supply was wasted. Why did the push for privatized water and sanitation fall? …
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