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Water scarcity
About: Water scarcity is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 11579 publications have been published within this topic receiving 228756 citations. The topic is also known as: water shortage.
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21 Apr 2004TL;DR: Siren Song as discussed by the authors provides insights about law, economics, and public policy within Chile and lessons for the countries around the world that are wrestling with the challenges of water policy reform.
Abstract: Increasing scarcity, conflict, and environmental damage are critical features of the global water crisis. As governments, international organizations, NGOs, and corporations have tried to respond, Chilean water law has seemed an attractive alternative to older legislative and regulatory approaches. Boldly introduced in 1981, the Chilean model is the worlds leading example of a free market approach to water law, water rights, and water resource management. Despite more than a decade of international debate, however, a comprehensive, balanced account of the Chilean experience has been unavailable. Siren Song is an interdisciplinary analysis combining law, political economy, and geography. Carl Bauer places the Chilean model of water law in international context by reviewing the contemporary debate about water economics and policy reform. He follows with an account of the Chilean experience, drawing on primary and secondary sources in Spanish and English, including interviews with key people in Chile. He presents the debate about reforming the law after Chile‘s 1990 return to democratic government, as well as emerging views about how water markets have worked in practice. The resulting book provides insights about law, economics, and public policy within Chile and lessons for the countries around the world that are wrestling with the challenges of water policy reform.
194 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the role of water saving technology in the agricultural sector in China and find that although water saving technologies have expanded rapidly in recent years, there is still considerable room for water-saving technology to be expanded.
193 citations
TL;DR: The growing scarcity of freshwater due to rising water demands and a changing climate is increasingly seen as a major risk for the global economy Consumer awareness, private sector initiatives, governmental regulation and targeted investments are urgently needed to move towards sustainable water use as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The growing scarcity of freshwater due to rising water demands and a changing climate is increasingly seen as a major risk for the global economy Consumer awareness, private sector initiatives, governmental regulation and targeted investments are urgently needed to move towards sustainable water use
192 citations
TL;DR: This paper identified factors that are associated with higher levels of public acceptance for recycled and desalinated water, including positive perceptions of, and knowledge about, the respective water source, awareness of water scarcity, as well as prior experience with using water from alternative sources, increases the stated likelihood of use.
192 citations
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper developed an approach to assess water scarcity by considering both water quantity and quality, while at the same time explicitly considering environmental flow requirement (EFR), and applied this quantity-quality-EFR approach for the Huangqihai River Basin in Inner Mongolia, China.
192 citations