Chapter 1: An Introduction to Financial Stability in the Water Sector -- Chapter 2: Financing Water Management and … Viability of Agricultural Water Investments -- Chapter 6: Innovative Financing for Agricultural Water Development -- Chapter 7 …: Innovative Water Financing in Practice: Lessons Learned from Kenya. …

of water allocation and distribution problems. Written in an accessible and straightforward style, it discusses and … analyzes central issues in integrated water resource management, water tariffs, water markets, and transboundary water … management. By illustrating the interplay between the hydrological cycle and the rules and institutions that govern todays water …

water scarcity intensifies the tradeoffs inherent in allocating water to competing uses and turns the policy challenge of … managing water resources ever more crucial. The book promotes the view that water policies should be designed and implemented … within a comprehensive framework that accounts to the many interconnected pieces comprising water economies." …

Water: the irreplaceable natural resource -- Water resources of Africa -- Who controls Africa's water resources … -- Water in the formation of the civilizations of Africa -- Rivers as gateway to inner Africa -- Water use in colonial Africa … -- Water use and post-colonial development -- Water and development in the 21st century …

problems of water deficit as well as water pollution. Due to increasing population, rising living standards, increasing … pressure of expanding irrigation areas and developing industries in the basin, efficient water resource allocation has become a … way of thinking about the issues pertaining to the current state of water resources in the basin, The Yellow River …

This paper examines water challenges, a growing global concern with adverse economic and social consequences, and … discusses economic policy instruments. Water subsidies provided through public utilities are estimated at about $456 billion or … 0.6 percent of global GDP in 2012. The paper suggests that getting economic incentives right, notably by reforming water …