Establishment of tradable water rights could play an important role in improving the
efficiency, equity, and sustainability of water use in developing countries. Well-defined …

Water to supply growing demands from ag-riculture, households, and industries in the arid
West traditionally has been secured through water storage and conveyance projects …

Water market reforms are being promoted by international organisations, such as the World
Bank, and pursued within many developing countries. Actual experiences with water …

Complex water-stressed basins like the Colorado River in North America have multiple
institutional levels of water management. Each institutional level is characterized by rules …

The rapid liberalization of developing economies encourages agricultural diversification and
commercialization. Prevailing water allocation methods have tended to limit the flexibility of …

It is usually taken for granted that the existence of water markets allows economic efficiency
gains to be achieved at the expense of equity losses. This paper addresses the issue by …

The study of property rights in water resources has been rather narrowly focussed on the
instrumental aspect of the right as a tool for achieving allocative efficiency. A richer view of …

One of the greatest conundrums facing the arid western United States is the availability, use,
and quality of groundwater. In large sections of the West, groundwater is the only …

With many water resources overcommitted and suffering environmental degradation, it is
becoming urgent to find ways to reallocate increasingly scarce water supplies to meet rising …

Water utilities are incentivizing residential water conservation and incorporating alternative
water sources, such as rainwater. How do past relationships with state institutions and their …