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1 Hellegers, Petra; Zilberman, D.; Steduto, P.; McCornick, Peter G. 2008. Interactions between water, energy, food and environment: evolving perspectives and policy issues. Water Policy, 10(Suppl.1):1-10. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2008.048]
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: PER Record No: H040853)
2 Zilberman, D.; Sproul, T.; Rajagopal, D.; Sexton, S.; Hellegers, Petra. 2008. Rising energy prices and the economics of water in agriculture. Water Policy, 10(Suppl.1):11-21. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2008.049]
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: PER Record No: H040854)
3 Davidson, B.; Hellegers, Petra; Samad, Madar. 2009. Assessing the economic impact of redistributing water within a catchment: a case study of the Musi Catchment in the Krishna Basin in India. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 38p. (IWMI Working Paper 134) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2010.005]
Economic impact ; Catchment areas ; River basins ; Models ; Water allocation / India / Krishna River Basin / Musi Catchment / Nagarjuna Sagar
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.9162 G635 DAV Record No: H042879)
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The aim in this paper was to present the details of an economic modeling exercise conducted on the Musi Catchment of the Krishna Basin. The model has the unique characteristic of being able to value the water used on individual crops and in different regions. Thus, the individual values of water used to produce different crops, grown over two different seasons and over five very different regions within a catchment, were determined. This is a significant improvement over previous attempts, where a single value of water in a catchment was derived regardless of what it is used for, when it was used and where it used in the catchment. In addition to the agricultural valuation process, some account was made for the other uses of water and how they should be valued. The worth of these findings cannot be underestimated as the results are useful to those who need to allocate scarce water supplies between competing uses within a catchment. The assumptions underlying the model, the data used and the results and implications drawn are fully detailed in this paper. This model was connected to a hydrological model and used to simulate various scenarios on the water situation facing users in the basin. This model is the forerunner of similar modeling attempts on similar problems in other regions of the Krishna Basin and in the Murray Darling Basin of Australia.
4 Tawfik, Mohamed Hassan; Al-Zawaidah, Hadeel; Hoogesteger, J.; Al-Zu'bi, Maha; Hellegers, Petra; Mateo-Sagasta, Javier; Elmahdi, A. 2023. Shifting waters: the challenges of transitioning from freshwater to treated wastewater irrigation in the northern Jordan Valley. Water, 15(7):1315. (Special issue: Water Contestations: Socio-Technical Entanglements, Politics and Social Mobilisation) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/w15071315]
Wastewater irrigation ; Water reuse ; Water allocation ; Freshwater ; Irrigation water ; Infrastructure ; Water management ; Urban areas ; Water scarcity ; Water policies ; Stakeholders ; Water user associations ; Farmers ; Socioeconomic aspects / Middle East / North Africa / Jordan / Jordan Valley
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051830)
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/15/7/1315/pdf?version=1680139072
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051830.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051830.pdf
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Jordan’s water scarcity prompted a national plan whereby treated wastewater is utilized to amend agricultural irrigation water so as to reallocate freshwater to urban/domestic uses. The policy, however, has engendered farmers’ resistance in the Northern Jordan Valley (NJV), causing a stalemate in putting new infrastructure into operation. This research investigated the socio-economic causes of farmer resistance and contestation, and examined the government’s institutional approach to overcome the challenges. We found that the perceived risks of wastewater reuse such as salinization and restrictions from international markets figure prominently in the farmers resistance. As yet, farmers have managed to avoid the shift to treated wastewater use by using the political agency of elite farmers who control the Water Users Associations. These same farmers have adopted informal water access practices to overcome freshwater shortages. At the same time, small producers who don’t have possibilities to access extra water and with less political clout seem more willing to irrigate with treated wastewater. We conclude that understanding the heterogeneous context in which the envisioned wastewater users operate is key to predicting and solving conflicts that arise in treated wastewater reuse projects.
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