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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 …
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. This lack of exploration is surprising, particularly given the negative impacts ‎of climate change upon the world's water …During the 1990s scholarship about water security abounded. However that debate abated at the ‎turn of this century … resources, and the concomitant water insecurity that ‎has resulted. The present article addresses water insecurity in the Middle …
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, one of the earliest and most direct impacts will be on Earth's fresh water systems. While some regions will experience … nations. In particular, it assesses the ability of international water law to respond to climate change consequences and …
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Water scarcity turns into shortage when water supplies are mismatched with user demands. After clarifying the different … social and private uses of water, I explain how to use prices to allocate treated (``utility'') water among municipal and … industrial users and untreated (``raw'') water among irrigators. Assuming institutional capacity, successful management of water …
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Climate change and the increasing demand of water intensify the global water cycle, altering the distribution of water …). As water is key to life, water scarcity is likely to provoke conflict. Using grid-cell data for Africa and central … water mass declines. We measure water mass anomalies based on changes in Earth's gravity field recorded by GRACE and link …
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developments of the literature on the understanding of water challenges in socioecological systems, particularly coastal ones. The … use of the environmental good. This is because ultimately, if it is true that water resources are affected by external … relatively superficially articulated in interdisciplinary water management analyses. Particularly, the study explores to what …
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that more educated women complied more with the program's water disinfection training, highlighting that even simple, low …-cost technologies require final users' compliance ("the last mile") to be effective. In the context of growing water scarcity …
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