Climate change: a strategic opportunity for water managers? / Kathy Jacobs and Paul Fleming -- The delta : resolving … California's water conundrum / Pat Mulroy -- The San Diego strategy : a sea change in western water / Maureen A. Stapleton -- The … Colorado River story / Jim Lochhead and Pat Mulroy -- Why examine Nebraska's water governance framework? / Ann Bleed …

instance, is home to between eight and fifteen percent of the world’s fresh water, and its fast-growing economy and population …This article examines two of the major water legal regimes in the Americas - that of Brazil and the United States. Both … present major challenges in management and allocation. The U.S. also faces major water allocation problems resulting from past …

Global climate change is already impacting water resources and, in many areas, reducing the amount of water available … for drinking, sanitation, and agriculture. Water conservation can be a means to mitigate the economic damages associated … with water scarcity, including scarcity arising from climate change. In the agricultural sector, most water conservation …

water resources; water levels of rivers in the EU are assumed to decrease in the next decades. Decreasing water levels, in … turn, heavily influence the quality of these water resources. In some countries the instrument of permit trading is also … applied to the regulation of water resources (quantity and quality). This paper gives an overview of existing systems in order …