Background: Competition for freshwater between cities and agriculture is projected to grow
due to rapid urbanization, particularly in the Global South. Water reallocation from rural to …

Irrigated agriculture is the main source of water withdrawals, accounting for around 70% of
all the world's freshwater withdrawals. The development of irrigated agriculture has boosted …

Managing water resources is one of the most pressing challenges of our times-fundamental
to how we feed 2 billion more people in coming decades, eliminate poverty, and reverse …

While there is consensus that urbanization is one of the major trends of the 21st century in
develo** countries, there is debate as to whether urbanization will increase or decrease …

Increasing economic pressures on water resources are causing countries to (re) consider
various mechanisms to improve water use efficiency. This is especially true for irrigation …

A group of agents located along a river have quasi-linear preferences over water and
money. We ask how the water should be allocated and what money transfers should be …

Increasing water withdrawals for urban, industrial, and agricultural use have profoundly
altered the hydrology of many major rivers worldwide. Coupled with degradation of water …

The concept of resilience is widely promoted as a promising notion to guide new
approaches to ecosystem and resource management that try to enhance a system's capacity …

European water policy, as set out in the Water Framework Directive (WFD), requires all EU
Member States to implement volumetric water pricing at rates that roughly cover the total …

Australia, and particularly the Murray–Darling Basin (MDB), has the most mature and
adopted water markets globally. Water trading is an important policy tool to deal with water …