Titlebook: Economics of Water Resources: From Regulation to Privatization; Nicolas Spulber,Asghar Sabbaghi Book 1998Latest edition Springer Science+B

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230514690 critical issues in the efficient allocation and distribution of water resources. During the 1980s the U.S. population rose by 23 percent in California (from 23.668 to 29.125 million), 25 percent in Texas (from 14.229 to 17.712 million), 31.5 percent in Florida (from 97.460 to 12.818 million), and 3

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Timothy Edmunds,Jamie Gaskarth,Robin Porterather than economic considerations. There has been much focus on supply-side price strategies to alleviate or to anticipate conflicts between various users when supply is limited. Various pricing policies have been designed in various countries, the simplest being flat-rate tariffs, where water fees

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Britain and the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, often wasteful patterns of water use in agriculture, questions of water scarcity and of water’s efficient allocation are becoming increasingly acute. As we have pointed out, in analyzing water resource management, one can no longer cut off the issue of water quantity from that of water quality and

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Pollutants and Their Specific ImpactFor many years, there have been efforts to develop an overall water quality index which would use selected physical, chemical, biological, and microbiological indicators in order to classify water resources according to their quality.

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Book 1998Latest edition extensive and effective pollution abatement as well as coping with the related issues of soil erosion, siltation in streams, channels, and reservoirs, protection against distress from drought and floods, and with the myriad problems relating to the environment, recreation, and navigation. We have m

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Market Processes in Water Allocationconcept of efficiency in water resource management has meant engineering efficiency in assuring water supply rather than economic efficiency in managing demand for and supply of water. Water has been treated as a free commodity: charges are not made for extracting water from surface or groundwater s