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Lesotho Water Security and Climate Change Assessment
World Bank Group - 2016
The analysis looks specifically at the need to ensure continued development of water resources within Lesotho and aims to empower stakeholders to act with more confidence by demonstrating that the implementation strategies can provide benefits to water resources management over a broad range of...
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Managing Urban Water Scarcity in Morocco
World Bank Group - 2017
Important challenges such as population growth, urbanization, economic expansion and climate changeare looming over urban water security in Morocco. While urban water demand is expected to rise by 60 percent to 100 percent in most large cities by 2050, climate projections suggest reduced...
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Water Scarcity in Morocco : Analysis of Key Water Challenges
Taheripour, Farzad - 2020
Morocco is expected to be faced with a major water shortfall prompted by either expansion in demand for water or reduction in precipitation induced by climate change. This paper examines the economywide impacts of these factors for Morocco. It uses a computable general equilibrium model...
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Water in the Balance : The Economic Impacts of Climate Change and Water Scarcity in the Middle East
Taheripour, Farzad - 2020
Innovations in water management and irrigated agriculture powered water-scarce Middle Eastern economies for millennia. However, as water becomes scarcer because of population growth and economic development, and even more erratic because of climate change, the region's water security is coming...
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Status of Water Sector Regulation in the Middle East and North Africa
Mumssen, Yogita - 2017
As the World Bank and partners aim to support governments in the Middle East and North Africa address the challenges that confront the water and sanitation sector, the development of an effective regulatory framework is seen as increasingly salient. In order to have impact in this space, some...
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Turbulent Waters : Pursuing Water Security in Fragile Contexts
Sadoff, Claudia W. - 2017
Water insecurity "ranging from chronic water scarcity to lack of access to safe drinking water and sanitation services, to hydrological uncertainty and extremes (floods and droughts)" can cause severe disruptions and compound fragilities in social, economic, and environmental systems. Untangling...
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Simulating the Macroeconomic Impact of Future Water Scarcity
Roson, Roberto - 2017
In this paper we consider some of the economic implications of climate change scenarios as described in the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs). By comparing potential water demand with estimates of (sustainable) water availability in different regions, we identify regions that are likely to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248328
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Exploratory Assessment of Factors that Influence Quality of Local Irrigation Water Governance in Uzbekistan
Swinkels, Rob - 2016
Agriculture in Uzbekistan is almost entirely dependent on irrigation. However, despite reforms to institutional … arrangements, much of Uzbekistan's irrigation is reportedly caught in a vicious cycle of inadequate operation and maintenance, low ….This study was undertaken with the aim of contributing to better irrigation water management in Central Asia, beginning in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644821
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Salt of the Earth : Quantifying the Impact of Water Salinity on Global Agricultural Productivity
Russ, Jason - 2019
including increased water extraction, poor irrigation management, and sea-level rise. To date no study has attempted to quantify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646801
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Sustainable Groundwater Irrigation : Approaches to Reconciling Demand with Resources
Gardua, Hactor - 2010
in their efforts to confront excessive groundwater resource exploitation for agricultural irrigation. Special emphasis is … irrigation. They have achieved varying degrees of success but do provide hope and orientation for the future in this important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247175