The current Water Abstraction License (WAL) regime in Italy is no longer flexible enough to cope with the challenges … of bottom-up conflict resolution mechanisms at a basin scale; a water pricing scheme that does not reflect the cost of … water conveyance and use, and does not encourage efficient water allocation; and the lack of a central WAL register, which …

Urban water and wastewater management are relatively under-studied subjects in India. The Indian urban space has been … sources of water, as also the diverse nature of aquifers characterizing urban settlements. This paper provides a new … presentation of the urban water problem and offers a set of solutions that are sustainable, both in ecological and financial terms …

This paper discusses a framework for analyzing robust institutions for water markets drawn on the new institutional …, property rights and collective actions. Based on these theories, we review the evolution and development of water reforms and … the Spanish and international experience on water markets, a list of robust recommendations for the improvement of water …

When consumption of water and other utilities is measured collectively and payment for such services is equally shared … installation of individual meters affects water consumption. Using rich administrative data from the public water utility company … in Quito, Ecuador, it is estimated that water consumption decreases by about 8% as a result of the introduction of …

Water is a multidimensional issue, involving water availability, access to freshwater, spatial and temporal … other aspects. The water security approach manages such complexity and proposes a comprehensive view of human security in … relation to the water-related issues. Consequently, the solutions developed in order to face this multi-faceted concept should …

close to and on both sides of the geographic boundary of piped water supply. Our work finds that access to piped water was … that suggest that it is not enough for a household to be connected to the water supply network, but that a minimum …