The current Water Abstraction License (WAL) regime in Italy is no longer flexible enough to cope with the challenges … of bottom-up conflict resolution mechanisms at a basin scale; a water pricing scheme that does not reflect the cost of … water conveyance and use, and does not encourage efficient water allocation; and the lack of a central WAL register, which …

This article provides an overview of key economic concepts in water services with a focus on price-based strategies for … demand management in the face of resource scarcity using the case of Nairobi city water services. The paper starts by first … presenting key issues and concepts in water economics then looks into detail issues of water pricing and concludes by providing …