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 …

Understanding the impact of international trade on the use of water resources provides a set of interesting ideas and … indirect links between international trade and water resources. It shows that with the right domestic policies and … international trade system, trade in water-related services as well as the transfer of innovation and technologies can efficiently …

The design of effective market institutions for allocation of water among competing uses remains an economic challenge … externality which complicates transfers between consumptive and environmental water users, leading to the slow evolution of this … opportunity costs of water transfers, paving the way for a centralized market mechanism for water transfers among consumptive and …

hand, the Brazil has a precarious infrastructure. To implement a water market, the first step would be to allow the trade … water infrastructure. Thus, a model is built to study the conditions under which the market would lead to a Pareto superior …The paper examines the possibility of a water market in Brazil. The US market, probably the oldest and most well …

Water reform in NSW is being undertaken using an adaptive approach in recognition of the uncertainty and imperfect … tradable water entitlements to develop and thereby assist in allocating scarce water resources to their highest value use. This … article explores impediments to the formation of efficient markets in permanent tradable water entitlements in NSW. The …

This paper discusses a framework for analyzing robust institutions for water markets drawn on the new institutional …, property rights and collective actions. Based on these theories, we review the evolution and development of water reforms and … the Spanish and international experience on water markets, a list of robust recommendations for the improvement of water …

water company stocks. More specifically, we examine the relationship between eleven company variables and abnormal returns … with regards to the twenty companies that comprise the World Water Index. The variables considered are revenues, sales and … investment in the water industry: earnings before interest and taxes, accounts payable, labor force, and sales and administration …

Kyrgyzstan required Uzbekistan to shift water withdrawals from small transboundary tributaries to the main river. The shift of … water allocation created long-term costs for Uzbekistan. The paper highlights the challenges related to the originally … perceived as beneficial compensation mechanisms (water swaps) within one basin and long-term cost implications. The need for …