Groundwater Markets in Pakistan
Author: Ruth Suseela Meinzen-Dick
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 0896291081
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ruth Suseela Meinzen-Dick
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 0896291081
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ruth Suseela Meinzen-Dick
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 23
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Asad Sarwar Qureshi
Publisher: IWMI
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 31
ISBN-13: 9290905301
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This working paper presents the results of a comprehensive groundwater survey of Pakistan, designed to understand the dynamics of groundwater use, operation and maintenance patterns, socio-economics of groundwater irrigation, land use pattern, crops, yields, and groundwater irrigation practices. For this survey, Pakistan was divided into 83 nodal intervals, with each node covering an area of 100 km*100 km; and one village from center of each grid was selected as sample. From each sample village, 15 tubewell owners were randomly selected as respondents. In total, 1200 private tubewell owners were interviewed for this study. The distance between two sample villages was kept more than 40 kilometers. This was done to avoid influences of one-village activities on the other.
Author: Ruth Suseela Meinzen-Dick
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9780896291089
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Strosser, P.
Publisher: IWMI
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 9290901667
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This paper presents the results of a study on water markets in the Fordwah/Eastern Sadiqia Area, Punjab, Pakistan. The study stresses and quantifies the importance of water markets in the area. A first attempt is made to evaluate the the impact of water marketson the quality of irrigation services.
Author: Hanan Jacoby
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Evidence from Pakistan's Punjab indicates that monopoly power in the market for groundwater (irrigation water extracted using private tubewells) results in a substantial resource misallocation. But despite this substantial misallocation of groundwater, a welfare analysis shows that monopoly pricing of groundwater has limited effects on equity and efficiency. Policies aimed at eliminating monopoly pricing would do little to help the poorest farmers.
Author: K. William Easter
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-08-20
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0585320888
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Markets for Water: Potential and Performance dispels many of the myths surrounding water markets and gives readers a comprehensive picture of the way that markets have developed in different parts of the world. It is possible, for example, for a water market to fail, and for the transaction costs in water markets to be excessive. Too often water trading is banned because the water resources have been developed with public funds and the water agencies do not want to lose control over water. There is also a concern that poor farmers or households will be disadvantaged by water trading. These concerns about public resources and the poor are not very different from those that have been voiced in the past about land sales. The problem is that in many cases the poor already have limited access to resources, but this limit is not due to water trading. In fact, water trading is likely to expand the access to water for many small-scale farmers. Markets for Water: Potential and Performance provides an analytical framework for water market establishment. It develops the necessary conditions for water markets and illustrates how they can improve both water management and economic efficiency. Finally, the book gives readers an up-to-date picture of what we have learned about water markets in a wide range of countries, from the US to Chile and India.
Author: Wheeler, Sarah A.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2021-08-27
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1788976932
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Exploring water scarcity issues in light of the growing crisis in global water management, this book examines the applicability of water markets. It provides an overview and understanding of the presence of water markets across the globe, analysing the ways in which different countries and regions are grappling with water scarcity.
Author: Claudia Ringler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-22
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1317661966
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pakistan’s water management is at a critical watershed. The world’s seventh-most populous country faces serious challenges that will require improvements in both the "hardware" and "software" of agricultural water management. Water shortages are growing rapidly as a result of growing demand across all water-using sectors. Rapid population growth, from 175 million people in 2010 to an estimated 236 million by 2030 and 280 million by 2050, and international food-price spikes create pressure to increase agricultural production of staples; but demand for cash crops is also growing rapidly, including for cotton, fruit trees and tobacco, to raise rural incomes and generate rural employment to absorb the relatively young, rapidly growing rural population. Water management is also increasingly affected by climate change – including an increased number of flood and drought events – and growing energy shortages, which affect how water is being sourced and used. Last but not least, Pakistan’s political situation is fragile, which has reduced incentives to invest in enhanced agricultural water (and other) technologies. How Pakistan addresses these challenges will be decisive for its population’s future water and food security, for economic growth, and for environmental sustainability. It will also affect water and food outcomes globally, due to the interconnectedness of global food trade. This book was published as a special issue of Water International.