water rights
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Promoting demand management in irrigation in India: policy options and institutional requirements
Education in the Face of Controversy: When Water and Politics Mix
Benefits of the South san Joaquin Irrigation district's Pilot Pressure Irrigation Project
The South San Joaquin Irrigation District (SSJID) board commissioned Stantec Consulting as a partner in developing an irrigation program that could improve delivery efficiency and service. A portion of one of the District's nine divisions â 1,537 ha in Division 9 â was chosen as the site for building, testing, and optimizing a pilot pressure irrigation project. The vision for the system included the following fundamental capabilities: pressurization. Pumping water from a 69,075 m3 pond to individual farms through 14.5 km of pressurized pipeline; calculated use.
Regional features of institutional evolution in Southeast Asia
Hydroelectric power generation in Chile: an institutional critique of the neutrality of market mechanisms
This paper presents an institutional analysis of hydropower development in Chile, focusing on the main legal institutions involved and relevant jurisprudence. Hydropower expansion took place within a neoliberal institutional framework imposed by the military government (1973–1990) that included reforms in both the water and electricity sectors. One of the stated purposes of these reforms was to remove ideology from both water management and electricity generation and ensure the neutrality of the state.
Market-based instruments for water allocation in India: issues and the way forward
Institutions do matter in managing water scarcity. Institutional reforms in water sector in recent years have tried to replace the existing command-and-control approach with more innovative and comprehensive marketbased approach. Based on a comprehensive literature review, this paper highlights various issues involved in marketbased institutional reforms in the water sector in various countries.
hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, on impact suffered by the tribes in the upper basin of the Missouri River, October 16, 2003, Washington, DCMissouri River Master Manual [m...
Stakeholders’ Responses to the Use of Innovative Water Trading Systems in East Anglia, England
It is widely recognised that the current abstraction licensing system in England needs to be reformed to meet the challenges of future environmental flow requirements, likely increases in water demands and climate change. The UK Government has committed to the reform of the abstraction regime in England and work is underway, including the Welsh Government, to assess the impacts of different reform options, working closely with stakeholders.