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wtp315
 Water allocation and water markets: an analysis of gains from trade in Chile / Hearne, Robert R.
This paper is intended to reinforce the World Bank's overall effort to improve the management of natural resources and to highlight the importance of water resources in particular. The paper focuses on water allocation problems and the performance of water markets in improving allocation. By examining specific case studies in Chile, one of the few [...]
The World Bank; 1995 - 75p.
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wps1779
 Water allocation mechanisms : principles and examples / Dinar, Ariel
From the earliest times, water resources have been allocated on the basis of social criteria -maintaining the community by ensuring that water is available for human consumption, for sanitation, and for food production. Societies have invested capital in infrastructure to maintain this allocation. Yet social change, including changes in (and more u [...]
World Bank; 1997 - 41p., Ref.
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wtp285
 The Market for Water Rights in Chile: major issues / Brehm, Monica Rios
Many economists advocate the use of tradable water rights as the most efficient system for allocating scarce water resources among alternative economic uses. According to this view, a private market in tradable water rights would maximize the economic value of the resource; would help to reduce costly public infrastructure investment and would fost [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 31p.
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young
 Measuring Economic Benefits for water Investments and Policies / Young, Robert.A
This monograph reviews, assesses and describes the operational use of the concepts and methods for estimating economic benefits of investment and allocation decisions involving water. The main focus of the report is on valuation of changes in water supply although attention is also given to measuring benefits of increased reliability of water suppl [...]
World Bank; - 118p.
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shirley
 Reforming the urban water system in Santiago, Chile / Shirley, Mary M.
In the late 1980s, Chile planned to privatize Santiago's sanitary works enterprise (EMOS) but instead reformed it under public ownership. It did so through a regulatory framework that mimicked the design of a concession with a private utility, setting tariffs that ensured at least a seven percent return on assets, creating a neutral regulator indep [...]
World Bank; 2000 - 71p., Ref.
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johansson
 Pricing irrigation water: A literature survey / Johansson, Robert C.
As water scarcity and population pressures increase, more countries are adopting water pricing mechanisms, as their primary means of regulating the consumption of irrigation water. The way to allocate water efficiently is to "get the prices right", but how to accomplish this is open to debate. Water pricing methods are sensitive to the social, phys [...]
World Bank; 2000 - 80p., Ref.
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subramanian
 User organizations for sustainable water services / Subramanian, Ashok
This paper addresses the basic question: under what conditions are user organizations most effective in managing water systems? The first part examines the conditions under which sustainable water user associations (WUAs) can be fostered in the irrigation sector. The second part deals with water and sanitation users' associations (WASAs) in the dom [...]
World Bank; 1997 - 162p.
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duaneSWP218
 A policy framework for irrigation water charges / Duane, Paul
The Bank's policy has been to require a recovery of at least the public sector's operation and maintenance (O & M) costs, and up to 100 percent of all direct public costs of any irrigation project, with revenues and costs in future years suitably discounted and adjusted for general inflation and with costs measured at domestic market prices. In [...]
World Bank; 1975 - 28p., Annex.
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wps2045
 Water challenge and institutional response (a cross-country perspective) / Saleth, R. Maria
This cross-country evaluation of institutional responses to problems in the water sector shows that changes in the nature of water problems have changed the development paradigm underlying water institutions. There is increasing recognition of how decentralized allocation mechanisms can influence economic forces and stakeholders in water sector dec [...]
World Bank; 1999 - 51p., Ref.
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wps-1460
 Efficiency and Equity Consideration in Pricing and Allocating Irrigation Water / Tsur, Yacov
May 1995 Pricing of water may affect allocation considerations by users. Efficiency is attainable whenever the pricing method affects the demand for irrigation water. The extent to which water pricing methods can affect income redistribution is limited [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 40p., tableaux, bibliogr.
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wps1303
 Conflict and cooperation in managing international water resources / Barret, Scott
Water is often not confined within territorial boundaries so conflicts may arise about shared water resources. When such boundaries lie within a federal state, conflicts may be peacefully and efficiently resolved under law, and if the state fail to reach an agreement, the federal government may impose one. Similar international conflicts are more d [...]
World Bank; 1994 - 35p.
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wps1219
 Decentralizing water resource management: Economic incentives, accountability and assurance / Easter, K. William
Private sector involvement and user participation in water resource management are not new, say the authors. They give examples that demonstrate how willing users and the private sector are able to improve water use and play a larger role in water resources management. User participation and private sector involvement, if properly structured, can p [...]
World Bank; 1993 - 27p.
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Rosegrant_etal_FP_1995 (1)
 Water policy for efficient agricultural diversification: market-based approaches / Rosegrant, Mark W.
The rapid liberalization of developing economies encourages agricultural diversi- fication and commercialization. Prevailing water allocation methods have tended to limit the flexibility of farmers in realiocating resources in response to changing incentives. Reform of water allocation mechanisms has lagged behind other input sectors, [...]
IFPRI; 1995 - 21p.
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1227wps
 Designing Water Institutions: market failures and institutional response / Livingston, Marie Leigh
To foster economic efficiency, says the author, rights to water resources must be both secure and flexible. Designing institutions to deal with the physical peculiarities of water in a way that establishes sensible incentives and efficient resource use is complicated. Basically, establishing security in water rights requires protecting water users [...]
World Bank; 1993 - 25p., bibliogr.
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book
 Water resources in the Asia-Pacific Region: managing scarcity / Rosegrant, Mark W.
IFPRI; 1996 -
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wps3980
 Trade Reforms, Farm Productivity; and Poverty in Bangladesh / Klytchnikova, Irina
This paper analyzes the distributional impacts of trade reforms in rural areas of Bangladesh. The liberalization of trade in irrigation equipment and fertilizer markets during the early 1990s has led to structural changes in the agricultural sector and a significant increase in rice productivity. A resulting increase in output has been associated w [...]
Rhe World Bank; 2006 - 33p
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shaliziwps3895
 Addressing China's Growing Water Shortages and Associated Social and Environmental Consequences / Shalizi, Zmarak
China has experienced a wide-scale and rapid transformation from an agricultural based economy to the manufacturing workshop of the world. The associated relocation of the population from relatively low density rural areas to very high density urban areas is having a significant impact on the quantity and quality of water available as inputs into t [...]
The World Bank; 2006 - 34p; Ref.
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ayres
 Integrated lake and reservoir management: World Bank approach and exprience / Ayres, Wendy S
This paper describes the challenges of managing lakes and reservoirs and the Bank's support of these activities. Specifically, it addresses water pollution, water withdrawals, diversions and lake reclamation; disturbances in watersheds; inappropriate introduction of exotic species; and overfishing. To alleviate the pressure on these water bodies, t [...]
World Bank; 1997 - 29p., Bibliogr.
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 Institutional and Policy Analysis of River Basin Management : The Guadal Quivir River Basin, Spain / Blomquist, William
The authors describe and analyze river basin management in the Guadalquivir River Basin in Spain. The Guadalquivir river flows westerly across southern Spain, with nearly all of its 57,017 km2 drainage area within the region of Andalusia. Water management issues in this semi-arid, heavily agricultural, but rapidly urbanizing region include drought [...]
The World Bank; 2005 - 40p; Ref.
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water
 Water resources management / World Bank
Water resources have been one of the most important areas of the Bank's lending during the past three decades. Water is an increasingly scarce resource requiring careful economic and environmental management. As the demand for water increases for human, industrial and irrigated agriculture, new challenges call for new approaches to supplying water [...]
World Bank; 1993 - 140p., Bibliogr.
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