The act of ensuring freshwater is considered the most essential and basic need for
humanity. Although the planet is water-rich in some terms, the freshwater sources available …

Water supply privatization was emblematic of the neoliberal turn in development policy in
the 1990s. Proponents argued that the private sector could provide better services at lower …

India is one of the most water-stressed countries in the world. With the rapidly increasing
population and growing energy demand, the country is already facing challenges in the …

The 1989 privatization of the water supply sector in England and Wales is a much-cited
model of market environmentalism—the introduction of market institutions to natural …

Necessity of Sustainable water demand management (SWDM) is immensely higher in the
rapidly urbanized mega cities of the world where groundwater depletion and water deficit …

In recent years, power tariff policy has been increasingly advocated as a mean to influence
groundwater use and withdrawal decisions of farmers in view of the failure of existing direct …

Common resources may be managed with inefficient policies for the sake of equity. We
study how rationing the commons shapes the efficiency and equity of resource use in the …

Two of the key factors that drive agricultural growth and food production in India are access
to arable land and utilizable water resources. These are examined with particular reference …

Efficient pricing of water and energy, advocated by economists as a means of achieving
more efficient allocations, is often politically infeasible, especially in developing countries. In …

This paper explores the impact on water demand of the adoption of deficit and precision
irrigation as a farmer's attempt to respond to water scarcity by maximising water productivity …