efficiency and cost recovery for a variety of supply situations faced by water utilities. The main advantage of VUP – compared to … social efficiency for a fixed-fee contractual arrangement between a profit-maximizing water utility and a public agency ….Public involvement is required to express equity concerns, demand for public goods such as water quality and security, and to identify …

patterns of 11 relatively water abundant and relatively water-scarce countries located in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle … net trade indices (NTI) for 13 sectors in each country and estimates the relationship between RCA values and water … can be linked to water endowments of the countries considered. By helping determine whether the countries in the sample …

for company water use given that water risk is ultimately not an efficiency challenge. In exploring CSV and the management … of shared resources, there are limitations to the value of CSV (as currently framed) as a response strategy to water … risks. For almost all businesses, water challenges involve complex social and environmental considerations “beyond …

initial investigations of these issues. The authors applied an exploratory approach starting with a search of a water and land … qualitative content analysis. For this paper, the authors focused on 13 initiatives in agribusiness involving water and land (e … land and water constraint aspects. A variety of other stakeholder issues warrant consideration including motivations …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the history of water governance in the Okanagan Valley of British … examine the possible benefits that might accrue from applying a distributed, multilevel approach to water governance in this … and other settings. Design/methodology/approach – Interviews with over 100 fruit growers and ranchers and with ten water …

inequality in water usage. Design/methodology/approach Gini coefficients and Theil indices have been used to estimate the overall … inequality in domestic water use in a sample of 30 countries around the world. Along with Theil’s L (unweighted) index, liters … inequality in water use in accordance to the countries’ economic standing. Findings Domestic water use is high among the well …

technical approaches in potable water savings in typical high‐density urban housing estates in Hong Kong. Design … the CIWEM HK Water Saving Competition 2009. The overall effectiveness of user behavioral and technical measures was … behavioral approach appears to be a promising one to achieve substantial water savings and has a potential for wide application …