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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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risks and provides the relevant policies, institutions, regulations, mechanisms and procedures for integrated water … scarcity. Institutions have been set up at all levels of government and rules are in place to involve civil society and the …
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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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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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current conditions and consider approaches to policies, institutions and regulation that can best incentivize the delivery of … reform might be best concentrated. The authors review the status of regulatory institutions and practices in five MENA … countries which were chosen to include different historic and legal frameworks and fragile/conflict states as well as those that …
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difficult, yet it is becoming a fundamental question for water policy worldwide given the scale of the fragility challenge. This … achieve in fragile contexts because of a range of factors, including weak institutions and information systems, strained human …
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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...
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Nepal is rich in water resources with a dense network of glaciers, lakes, rivers, and springs that originate in the … economic and social purposes. Several elements have contributed to this low rate of utilization, including Nepal's rugged … poverty reduction, and to enhance shared prosperity, Nepal must increase its investments in water-related infrastructure and …
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Given the broad array of issues and the complexity faced by the water sector as a whole (from irrigation to flood protection, to water conservation and hydropower), there is great demand for future exploring the potential of RBF and tackling the questions still unanswered about many of its...
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A substantial increase in sector financing will be necessary to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6 calling for universal access to safe water and sanitation while addressing issues of water quality and scarcity to balance the needs of households, agriculture, industry, energy, and the...
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