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Water Use Efficiency and Jobs
Burns, Patrick - 2016
Los Angeles is a major net importer of water and relies on sources several hundred miles away in Northern California and Colorado for two-thirds of its supply. The ecosystems of these source regions are significantly impacted by decades of diverting water for agricultural, industrial and...
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China's Water Environmental Management Towards Institutional Integration. A Review of Current Progress and Constraints vis-a-vis the European Experience
Deng, Yixiang; Brombal, Daniele; Farah, Paolo Davide; … - 2016
In recent years, China has launched ambitious measures to tackle water pollution. As political commitment and public investment soared, Chinese environmental scientists and practitioners have engaged in a substantial debate on the reorganization of the country's water management system. Domestic...
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Water investment planning and financing
Laubenstein, Helen - 2024
This paper examines three sets of issues related to strategic investment planning and financing for water: i) Investment planning in an uncertain context; ii) The benefits of supplementing project level planning with a consideration for pathways of investments; iii) Facilitating access to a...
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Cost recovery for water services under the Water Framework Directive
Farnault, Aude - 2024
This paper examines the concept of cost recovery of water services under the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), including the different types of costs and cost-recovery mechanisms. It presents the state of play in the implementation of cost recovery in EU Member States, for financial,...
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A Water Scorecard : Setting Performance Targets for Water Utilities
Tyman, Nicola; Kingdom, Bill - 2012
This note highlights the wide variation in performance on key indicators: unaccounted-for water, labor costs, the working ratio, service coverage, water prices and connection costs, and continuity of service. As governments struggle with rising health care costs, public-private partnerships in...
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A comparative analysis framework for assessing the sustainability of a combined water and energy infrastructure
Karaca, Ferhat; Raven, Paul Graham; Machell, John; … - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 90 (2015) 2, pp. 456-468
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Water-energy-food nexus : principles and practices
Salam, P. Abdul (ed.); Shrestha, Sangam (ed.);  … - 2017
Water, energy and food are key resources to sustain life, and are fundamental to national, regional, and global … has been discussed, debated, researched, and advocated widely but the focus is often on the pairings of "water-energy" or … "water-food" or "energy-food". To really benefit from the nexus approach in terms of resource use efficiency, it is essential …
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Government strategies in the water transport sector : a closer look at Philippine ports
Francisco, Kris A.; Lim, Valerie L. - 2021
Transport infrastructure is one of the key elements in achieving a balanced growth within an economy. The water … transport sector, in particular, plays a much larger role in an archipelagic country such as the Philippines. The country … inefficiencies in the operation of seaports, which are the main infrastructure in the water transport sector. This study analyzed the …
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Private solutions for infrastructure in Lesotho
2004
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