Despite modeling groundwater as a common property resource, existing economic analyses find that the quantitative difference between competitive and socially optimal groundwater management outcomes is negligible. Thus, in contrast to the public perception of groundwater overextraction and resource depletion, there appears to be no economic rationale for groundwater management. In this paper, we...

At less than 1000 km3/year, the world's annual use of groundwater is 1.5% of renewable water resource but contributes a lion's share of water-induced human welfare. Global groundwater use however has increased manifold in the past 50 years; and the human race has never had to manage groundwater use on such a large scale. Sustaining the massive welfare gains groundwater development has created w...

he water framework directive of the european union has become a milestone in the water policy for this area. this directive aims to achieve a “good ecological status” of bodies of water in the member states of the european union by 2015. the water framework directive calls for the application of economic principles, economic approaches, tools and instruments. the functions of this economic anal...

Groundwater resource is a very important water resource that has stable temperature, clear, tidy and confident. In recent years, population growth, industrialize and need to food and water, have exposed the groundwater resource on the risk. Reduction of water resources is a main problem in throughout the world. In this research groundwater potential mapping was obtained in Norabad plain, Lorest...

Groundwater is the natural resource most extracted in the world. It supplies 50% of the total potable water requirements, 40% of the industry take, and 20% of agriculture groundwater is a strategic resource for every country. That common-pool resources are highly susceptible to lead to a tragedy of the commons is a well-known fact. We claim that a combination of groundwater modeling, optimizati...

Recently, special attention has been paid to artificial groundwater recharge in water resource management in arid and semi-arid regions. Water resources distribution in these regions is extremely uneven, both in spatial and temporal forms and groundwater is the only water resource and is a major constraint on economic and social development. Artificial groundwater recharge is considered an appr...

Protection, restoration and development of groundwater supplies and remediation of contaminated aquifers are the driving issues in groundwater resource management. These issues are further triggered on and driven by the population expansion and increasing demands. To transform the ‘vicious circles’ of groundwater availabilities into ‘virtuous circles’ of demands, understanding of the aquifer be...

The present study attempts to estimate the shadow price of unextracted groundwater in the Vozvozi aquifer. In the context of this study, we model the production function of vertically integrated agricultural firms in terms of an input-oriented distance function with multiple inputs. Duality theory is employed in order to extract information regarding the in situ shadow price of groundwater. Thi...

www.jogh.org • journal of global health / December, 2011 • Vol. 1 No. 2 135 Water resources of a country constitute one of its vital assets. India receives an average of 4000 billion cubic meters of rainfall every year, confined to the monsoon season (June through September). Unfortunately, due to lack of storage and crumbling infrastructure, only 18% can be used (1). Apart from the water avail...

groundwater resource is a very important water resource that has stable temperature, clear, tidy and confident. in recent years, population growth, industrialize and need to food and water, have exposed the groundwater resource on the risk. reduction of water resources is a main problem in throughout the world. in this research groundwater potential mapping was obtained in norabad plain, lorest...