Management Of Water Resources Bulk Water Pricing In Brazil

Author : Musa Asad
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0821344374

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Management of Water Resources by Musa Asad Pdf

"Although procedures for pricing "retail" distribution have been established for a long time, methods for pricing bulk or "wholesale" water supplies are still evolving." How to finance the infrastructure and service of bulk water supply, and how to use pricing to achieve efficient allocation and use of water as a resource are the central issues that emerge from discussions about bulk water pricing. Efficiency will lead to allocating water resources better, reducing water losses caused by poor maintenance of the supply systems, and increased monitoring of water quality. At first glance, Brazil may not appear to be a relevant country from which to draw lessons in distributing scarce water resources, since it contains 12 percent of the world's fresh water supply. However, with its vast territory and issues of regional drought and population explosion, Brazil provides a unique environment in which to demonstrate how adequate pricing of bulk water on a regional level can help allocate water efficiently. This paper offers a framework for bulk water pricing reform and examines the lessons from recent analytical work and practice in Brazil, as well as relevant international experience. It then offers recommendations for the development of both water pricing and allocation policies to facilitate continued implementation of bulk water pricing in Brazil.

Author : Musa Asad
Publisher : World Bank Group
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1280006161

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Management of Water Resources: Bulk Water Pricing in Brazil by Musa Asad Pdf

This document compares analytical work done on Brazil with the experience of bulk water pricing in other countries to arrive at practical recommendations for determining fair bulk water pricing in Brazil. Adequate pricing of bulk water is critical to ensure efficient allocation of water, and to properly fund the maintenance and operation costs involved with collecting water at its natural source and distributing it to intermediate water users. Two central issues emerge from these discussions: How to finance the infrastructure and service of bulk water supply, and how pricing can be used to achieve efficient allocation and use of water as a resource. Attaining efficiency will lead to better allocation of water resources, which will reduce water losses caused by poor maintenance of water supply systems and inadequate attention to water contamination. Of the varied methods used to address these issues, public water allocation is regarded by the authors as being the least effective and efficient when you compare relevant international experiences. Although Brazil has recognized the need for bulk water pricing, it has not yet established an overall framework of regulations and pricing mechanisms. Without such a framework, the willingness to establish appropriate water pricing mechanisms may descend.

Author : Musa Asad,Luis Gabriel Azevedo,Karin E. Kemper,Larry D. Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Abastecimiento de agua - Brasil
ISBN : OCLC:777902871

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Management of water resources : bulk water pricing in Brazil by Musa Asad,Luis Gabriel Azevedo,Karin E. Kemper,Larry D. Simpson Pdf

Author : Asit K. Biswas,Cecilia Tortajada
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134196456

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Water Pricing and Public-Private Partnership by Asit K. Biswas,Cecilia Tortajada Pdf

There is no question that water pricing and public-private partnership can improve water management practices in the future. However, this concept is neither the cure-all many proponents argue, nor the disaster its opponents forecast. Providing a comprehensive and objective assessment of what does and does not work, where, why and under what circumstances, this informative collection assesses the social, economic, equity and institutional implications. This cohesive set of carefully selected essays, the result of The Third World Centre for Water Management and the Inter-American Development Bank's decision to objectively and critically assess the experiences in these areas, transcends the current dogmatic debate on these complex issues. Providing an in-depth analysis and assessment of the main issues and constraints of water pricing, private sector participation and their affect on water supply, the collection draws on illustrative case studies from Argentina, Brazil, the USA and Western European countries amongst others. This is a special issue of the Journal of Water Resource Development.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264238121

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OECD Studies on Water Water Resources Governance in Brazil by OECD Pdf

This book assesses the performance of Brazil’s water governance and suggests policy recommendations for strengthening the co-ordination between federal and state water policies and for setting up more robust water allocation regimes that can better cope with future risks.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 200?
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1368152346

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The Management of Water Resources by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rebecca Neaera Abers,Margaret E. Keck
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199985289

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Practical Authority by Rebecca Neaera Abers,Margaret E. Keck Pdf

How do institutional arrangements established by law become operational in practice? It takes work for them to develop problem-solving capabilities and win recognition from others-what the authors call "practical authority." Drawing from a decade-long, multi-site study of efforts to transform freshwater management in Brazil, the authors show how an assortment of protagonists-from state officials to university professors to activists-struggled to breathe life into new institutional designs. Their account weaves together three decades of national and state law-making with experimentation in establishing new kinds of participatory water management organizations. Exploring this process in sixteen river basins, the authors examine why some of those organizations adapted creatively to challenges while others never got off the ground. To approach this complex, volatile, and non-linear process of transformation, the book develops a framework for investigating the actions and practices of institution-building.

Author : Carsten Lorz,Franz Makeschin,Holger Weiss
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781780404899

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Integrated Water Resource Management in Brazil by Carsten Lorz,Franz Makeschin,Holger Weiss Pdf

The complex interactions between water resources, land-use change and water technologies are a major issue in many emerging countries of Southern America. Usable water resources are affected by natural conditions, such as, strong seasonal contrasts and high climatic variability, and rapid changes of land use and land cover that is caused by the dramatic expansion of agricultural land and urbanization processes. So far, the effects of the changing climate have had minor effects on water resources. Although regional data is rather scarce, global climate models predict substantial changes of climatic conditions in the future. A further pressure is that demand for water supply and waste water, both in terms of amount and spatial expansion, is increasing rapidly due to higher population densities caused by natural population growth and migration as well as higher per capita consumption. Integrated Water Resource Management in Brazil aims to present the results of the joint project IWAS-AGUA DF which deals with problems, causes and solutions in water supply in scope of integrated water resource management in western Central Brazil. The basic idea of the IWRM approach to be presented is to show how natural conditions and human interference are interacting and how technologies as well as concepts might help to manage such water resource systems in a sustainable way. Authors: Carsten Lorz, Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf, University of Applied Sciences, Germany, Franz Makeschin, Dresden University of Technology, Germany and Holger Weiss, Center for Environmental Research, Germany

Author : Jerome Delli Priscoli,Aaron T. Wolf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 1139471376

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Managing and Transforming Water Conflicts by Jerome Delli Priscoli,Aaron T. Wolf Pdf

What is the one thing that no one can do without? Water. Where water crosses boundaries – be they economic, legal, political or cultural – the stage is set for disputes between different users trying to safeguard access to a vital resource, while protecting the natural environment. Without strategies to anticipate, address, and mediate between competing users, intractable water conflicts are likely to become more frequent, more intense, and more disruptive around the world. In this book, Delli Priscoli and Wolf investigate the dynamics of water conflict and conflict resolution, from the local to the international. They explore the inexorable links between three facets of conflict management and transformation: Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), public participation, and institutional capacity. This practical guide will be invaluable to water management professionals, as well as to researchers and students in engineering, economics, geography, geology, and political science who are involved in any aspects of water management.

Author : Salman M. A. Salman,Daniel D. Bradlow
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780821365205

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Regulatory Frameworks for Water Resources Management by Salman M. A. Salman,Daniel D. Bradlow Pdf

This title examines how regulatory frameworks have addressed the various basic issues related to water resources management, and provides a comparative analysis of those issues. It elicits and discusses what it considers are the essential elements for a regulatory framework for water resources management, and identifies some emerging trends.

Author : François Molle,Jeremy Berkoff
Publisher : CABI
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781845932930

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Irrigation Water Pricing by François Molle,Jeremy Berkoff Pdf

This book contains 14 separately authored chapters on the pricing of irrigation water. The chapters are entitled: (1) Water pricing in irrigation: the lifetime of an idea; (2) Water pricing in irrigation: mapping the debate in the light of experience; (3) Why is agricultural water demand unresponsive at low price ranges; (4) Get the prices right: a model of water prices and irrigation efficiency in Maharashtra, India; (5) Thailand's free water: rationale for a water charge and policy shifts; (6) Water rights and water fees in rural Tanzania; (7) Who will pay for water? The Vietnamese State's dilemma of decentralization of water management in the Red River Delta; (8) Water pricing in Haryana, India; (9) The energy-irrigation nexus in South Asia: groundwater conservation and power sector viability; (10) Wells and canals in Jordan: can pricing policies regulate irrigation water use; (11) Water pricing in Tadla, Morocco; (12) Water pricing policies and recent reforms in China: the conflict between conservation and other policy goals; (13) Water pricing and irrigation: a review of the European experience; and (14) Policy-driven determinants of irrigation development and environmental sustainability: a case study in Spain.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0821355473

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Brazil by Anonim Pdf

This volume presents a set of policy notes prepared by the World Bank's Brazil Team with partners during 2002

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264179820

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OECD Studies on Water A Framework for Financing Water Resources Management by OECD Pdf

This report provides a framework for policy discussions around financing water resources management that are taking place at local, basin, national, or transboundary levels.

Author : Jebagnanam Cyril Kanmony
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drinking water
ISBN : 8183243460

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Drinking Water Management by Jebagnanam Cyril Kanmony Pdf

Study with special reference to Kanyakumari District of Tamil Nadu, India.

Author : Ronaldo Seroa da Motta
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1845423615

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Economic Instruments for Water Management by Ronaldo Seroa da Motta Pdf

This book argues that the economic appeal of using water charges to promote efficiency in usage and pollution control can be constrained by institutional and operational problems. Analysing the cases of France, Mexico and Brazil, the authors 'respecti