Stated preference values for water quality ratings based on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Water … rivers in the region for which water quality is rated Good. Valuations are skewed, with the mean value more than double the … median. Sources of heterogeneity in benefit values include differences in responses to average water quality information and …

environmental question which dominates our time and pose the major challenge to environmental organizations of control. Water is one …: demographic explosion, probable reduction in the water run-offs, scarcity of the resources, the degradation of the hydraulic …

International Water Law has developed a set of rules for resolving interstate fresh water disputes that govern both the … will ensure an optimal and efficient allocation of resources.International fresh water disputes usually involve high …

Water is a multidimensional issue, involving water availability, access to freshwater, spatial and temporal … other aspects. The water security approach manages such complexity and proposes a comprehensive view of human security in … relation to the water-related issues. Consequently, the solutions developed in order to face this multi-faceted concept should …

This paper deals with the construction, decomposition and comparison of water footprint time series in 40 countries and … the possible causes behind the time evolution of water footprints in the various countries. We notice that the physical … and economic impact of economic growth on water resources has been significantly lower than what it could have been, for …

. 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 …

This paper deals with the construction, decomposition and comparison of water footprint time series in 40 countries and … the possible causes behind the time evolution of water footprints in the various countries.We notice that the physical and … economic impact of economic growth on water resources has been significantly lower than what it could have been, for several …

The effectiveness of price as a water conservation measure remains an open empirical issue and relevant policy question …. We conduct a meta-regression analysis that summarizes 615 estimates of the price elasticity of residential water demand … out location and community traits that boost or depress the price elasticity of residents. Our results reveal that water …

Water is an increasingly scarce resource. It is often distributed such that consumers do not face any marginal cost of … water at zero marginal cost. Using high-frequency data over many years, we analyze how the introduction of apartment …-level metering and billing (IMB) affects hot water consumption. We find that introducing a marginal cost, reflecting the market price …

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 … market in many parts of the world including western United States. Utilizing a unique case study of reservoir management in …