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Nektarios N. Kourgialas
This editorial paper takes the form of a concise report and delves into a critical and intricate issue essential for the sustainability of agriculture. It centers on the intricate relationship between agri-cultural water resource management and agronomic...
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Glen R. Walker, Avril C. Horne, Quan J. Wang and Rob Rendell
Improving irrigation efficiency (IE) is an approach used globally to help meet competing demands for water and facilitate reallocation of water between sectors. In the Murray?Darling Basin in Australia, the Australian government has invested heavily in I...
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Giuseppe T. Cirella, Felix O. Iyalomhe and Paul O. Adekola
Recent flood disasters in Benin City, Nigeria have claimed a number of lives, damaged property, and threatened the overall livelihood of residents. The economic burden of such events has forced a vast reallocation of monetary resources for clean-up and r...
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Jason Alexandra
This paper explores the ways water governance adapts to changing social values and political imperatives by examining the case of water policy reforms in Australia?s Murray Darling Basin. Over more than two decades, Australia?s water reforms have explici...
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Yu Liu, Xiaohong Hu, Qian Zhang and Mingbo Zheng
Water resources play a vital role in human life and agriculture irrigation, especially for agriculture-dominant developing countries and regions. Improving agricultural water use efficiency has consequently become a key strategic choice. This study, base...
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Nazaret M. Montilla-López, Carlos Gutiérrez-Martín and José A. Gómez-Limón
In recent decades, the use of economic instruments has been promoted as a way to improve water demand management, required due to the difficulty of further supply increases. Against this backdrop, this paper analyses the potential of water banks as a typ...
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Sara Palomo-Hierro, José A. Gómez-Limón and Laura Riesgo
Law 46/1999 incorporated formal water markets into the Spanish legal and regulatory framework, allowing spot water markets and the creation of water banks. The implementation of water markets in Spain aimed at improving the efficiency of water use by rea...
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