This study estimates the economic cost of mining pollution on water resources for the years 2008 and 2009 based on the conceptual framework of Environmental Efficiency (Pittman, 1981.1983, Färe et al., 1989, 1993, 2003; Rao, 2000). This framework understands such costs as the mining companies...

This study analyzes the water footprint profiles of quinoa production in Bolivia, an emblematic crop that faces significant challenges in terms of yield and sustainability. The Total Water Footprint (WH) of quinoa estimated for the Southern Altiplano region of Bolivia is approximately 1,728...

In places like the Valencian Region, where the climate is arid, the flow rate of the rivers is irregular, and irrigation is essential if agrarian returns are to increase, the way water was distributed among irrigators often gave rise to clashes between them. This paper begins with an analysis of...

This study analyzes the water footprint profiles of quinoa production in Bolivia, an emblematic crop that faces significant challenges in terms of yield and sustainability. The Total Water Footprint (WH) of quinoa estimated for the Southern Altiplano region of Bolivia is approximately 1,728...

The northern part of our country has arid and semi-arid conditions in which fundamental economic activities take place, mainly mining and agriculture, the latter in the regions of Atacama and Coquimbo. Both require water as the main production factor. Water, as public property, has a social...

In this excerpt of the chapter we outline the economic, sociological, environmental and legal approaches with respect to water conflicts in Spain. These approaches are a necessary condition for a due debate on the current state of the art in water management. In summary, we show that Spain is a...

This paper shows and analyses the concept of instream value of water. New concepts both on water accounting and management show up by building an appropriate framework to deal with these instream uses. More precisely, real or net consumption definition highlight the fact that there is no such a...

Spanish Abstract: El presente estudio presenta un análisis, espacialmente desagregado, de la disminución en el consumo residencial de agua en el Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá (AMVA) durante el periodo 2005-2010 e identificar las características socioeconómicas asociadas a estos...

The problematic theories around the hydrologic ones are exposed. From a revision of the state of the knowledge the causal relations between the hydrologic exclusion and the State, the cultural, the society, the media, the communities, the family and the individuals are explained. Theoretical...

One settled down the validity and the trustworthiness of the instruments that measure variables of perceptions (indicated by utility expectations and risk around the extraction, storage, dosage, reusability or waste of water), valuing (indicated by the agreement or the discordance of principles...