better understanding of the use of water resources in agricultural sectors. The results indicate that a water policy directed … to improvements in irrigation efficiency in water-stressed regions is not beneficial for all. For water-stressed regions … the effects on welfare and demand for water are mostly positive. For non-water scarce regions the results are more mixed …

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 …

It is becoming increasingly important to put freshwater issues in a global context. Local water depletion and pollution … are often closely tied to the structure of the global economy. With increasing trade between nations and continents, water … water in virtual form, where virtual water is understood as the volume of water that has been used to produce a commodity …

, intensivierte Landwirtschaft und mögliche Wasserkonflikte. Die UN greift zudem im Rahmen ihrer Aktionsdekade »Wasser – Quelle des … Lebens«, weitere Aspekte rund um das Thema Wasser auf. Sauberes Wasser als Menschenrecht wurde in der jüngsten Vergangenheit …, wie sehr Wasser selbst in entwickelten Ländern eine knappe Ressource ist. Der KZK-Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die …

We analyze the properties of progressive water tariffs that are often applied in the sector in the form of discretely … increasing block tariffs (IBT). We are particularly interested in water tarification in a poverty context where a subsistence … level of water has to be allocated to each household. Our approach is semi-welfarist to the extent that we analyze second …

concentrate on the semiarid region of Northeastern Brazil to highlight the role of water scarcity as a determinant of early life … minimized when the local public health infrastructure is sufficiently developed (municipality coverage of piped water and … during the dry season, and for mortality in the first 6 months of life. The results seem to be driven by water scarcity per …

Wasser ist unabdinglich für das Wohlbefinden der Menschen und das Wohlsein der Natur. Die Verfügbarkeit über sauberes … Verelendung. Und deshalb kann Wasser auch Anlass bieten für soziale Konflikte und kriegerische Auseinandersetzungen …,1 Milliarden, ist das Wasser in vielen Teilen der Welt bereits knapp und teilweise erheblich verschmutzt. Rund 1,1 Milliarden …

A number of countries face water shortages because they need to make some basic changes in their water management …. Policy options do exist. Most of them share the objective of treating water and water services as an economic good, by … regulating private inefficient appropriation of open-access resources, and by making the demand for water less independent of …

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 …