South Africa is a water-scarce country with an average rainfall of 500 mm per year. It is estimated that national water … demand will exceed supply by 2025. Increasing the water supply would be environmentally, financially or politically … unfeasible. Impoverished communities, especially those in rural areas, require access to water for drinking, cooking and other …

negative effect on water resources and, in most years, human health. Most countries benefitted from climate change until 1980 …

water as an explicit factor of production for irrigated agriculture. Significant reductions in agricultural tariffs lead to … modest changes in regional water use. Patterns are non-linear. On the regional level water use may go up for partial …, and because trade and competition matter too. Moreover, trade liberalization tends to reduce water use in water scarce …

Domestic water demand is influenced both by the number of households and their characteristics, in particular the … extent to which they employ water-using appliances. This paper focuses on domestic ownership of water-using appliances in … Ireland, a country where rapid economic and demographic change are putting pressure on water and sewerage infrastructure …

transport fuel use, and secondary data on household behaviour to impute waste arisings. We use EPA data on drinking water use … energy is relatively uniform. There is no clear pattern in estimated drinking water use, which may be due to data quality …. Drinking water quality is poor across much of the country, but different counties suffer from different problems. The regional …

Water and agriculture are intrinsically linked. Water is essential for crop production and agriculture is the largest … consumer of freshwater resources. However, this link is commonly ignored by economic models mainly because water use is not … reported in the national economic accounts. Few regions have markets for water. This paper describes the new version of GTAP …

Water resources are unevenly spread in China. Especially the basins of the Yellow, Hui and Hai rivers in the North are … rather dry. To increase the supply of water in these basins, the South-to-North Water Transfer project (SNWT) was launched …-to-North water transfer project to increase water supply. In the first group of scenarios additional supply implies productivity …