A study has been conducted to illustrate examples of water quality problems to vulnerable communities in Limpopo Province of South Africa (SA) and management practices and strategies. Pollution of water sources is a major threat to the scarce water resources in the province. This severely affects water quality and impacts negatively on public health particularly in remote rural communities that...

the water remains at the centre of livelihood from the beginning of human civilization. civilization enriched mostly on the fertile plains and river valleys. with times, people began migrating to highland slopes where there was easy access to water to use. two villages in mustang region of nepal were considered for research to drill the causes of conflicts on water sources right and water share...

Humans have significantly altered the redistribution of water in intensively managed hydrologic systems, shifting the spatiotemporal patterns of surface water. Evaluating water availability requires integration of hydrologic processes and associated human influences. In this study, we summarize the development and evaluation of an extensible hydrologic model that explicitly integrates water rig...

Markets are now fashionable as institutions for managing water both nationally and internationally. True markets, however, have always been rare for water rights and there are good reasons for believing that they always will be. Water is an ambient resource where the actions of any one user necessarily affect many other users. If true markets are relied on to allocate water for particular uses ...

The management of natural resources is a challenge of significant social relevance. At the core of water policy is the need to foster a more rational use of the resource and this may be addressed by creating an efficient market of water rights [4]. However the design and operation of such a market is not an easy endeavor because it needs to coexist in a complex social and legal framework. Most ...

Water has always been political in nature and competing narratives of water rights equity are not new. The governance management is frequently contested by stakeholders opinion...

[1] Chile’s free-market Water Code turned 20 years old in October 2001. This anniversary was an important milestone for both Chilean and international debates about water policy because Chile has become the world’s leading example of the free-market approach to water law and water resources management, the textbook case of treating water rights not merely as private property but also as a fully...

We review the role of R&D in endogenous growth theory, and describe extant empirical research—macro and micro—bearing on R&D as an engine of growth. Taking R&D to be key while recognizing the significance of economic incentives emphasizes knowledge as an economic object and, more generally, the economics of intellectual property rights. This paper argues that property rights matter, but in subt...

the purpose of this descriptive correlational study was to determine problems and success factors among members of water user associations (wuas) in moqan, tajan and varamin areas in northern iran. the population consisted of farmers who were members of water user associations (n= 2,500). using simple random sampling procedure, 262 farmers were selected for the study. a researcher made structur...