Increases in water demand due to population growth, industrial development and urbanization necessitate economically … efficient use of water resources worldwide. This is particularly true in the dryland zones of the world relying on irrigated … agriculture for economic development such as in Uzbekistan, Central Asia. Due to ill-managed water resources and the dominance of …

Recent analyses of the evolution and structure of trade in virtual water revealed that the number of trade connections … and volume of virtual water trade have more than doubled over the past two decades, and that developed countries … increasingly draw on the rest of the world to alleviate the pressure on their domestic water resources. Our work builds on these …

This paper seeks to determine water demand of the mining sector in the Middle Olifants sub-basin of South Africa …. Despite the growing economic importance of mining in the area, only little is known about its water demand and the role of … water in the mines´ extraction process. By means of econometric estimation water price elasticities as well as substitution …

flowing through or bordering Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Whereas water resources in the wet season are … more than adequate to fulfill basin needs, there are regional water shortages during the dry season, when only 1-2% of the … the basin, including efficient, equitable, and environmentally sustainable water allocation mechanisms that support the …

in the entire water sector with the goal of a more enhanced and equitable water management system. This paper analyzes … existing water allocation situations and applies a nonlinear optimization model to investigate the optimal intra- and … interregional allocations in the Middle Olifants sub-basin of South Africa. Results show higher benefit from interregional water …

differential game, we have shown how the issue of water sharing could be linked to hydropower export that can make water sharing …As multiple countries share a river, the likelihood of a water resource conflict from climate change could be higher … between countries. In this paper, we demonstrate how countries can cooperate in transboundary water sharing in a sustainable …