... amounts of electricity, irrigated water, and environmental and social disaster. With Deep Water, Jacques Leslie offers a searching ... of the current crisis over dams and the world's water. An emerging

... paper from RFF. From the Abstract: "Water pollution taxes, or effluent fees, ... approach to cost effectively achieve water quality improvements. The articles ... the arguments in favor of taxes and traces the history of the idea in U.S.

... of robust markets in credit buying and selling. Based on this review, we ... principles to expand the quantity of and lower the prices of credits while ... goal: no net loss of wetlands acres and functions."

... multi-disciplinary book to address water policy in Jordan. Edited by the former Minister of Water and Irrigation of Jordan, with ... by other prominent Jordanian and international water professionals,

... published by the Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control ... the development of State/Interstate and Federal efforts to control water pollution prior to and since the enactment of the 1972 Clean

Big dams built for irrigation, power, water supply, and other purposes were ... with scant regard for environmental and social consequences—especially for the ... world society that features novel and increasingly efficacious norms of

... for people who wish to understand and pursue rainwater harvesting and use ... to the advancement of sustainable water management practices for individuals, families, communities, and businesses. We share knowledge and

This work exposes how water flow links nature and society through water's many parallel functions as the ... of both the natural environment and the embedded human environment - and

Viewed by some as symbols of progress and by others as inherently flawed, large ... of large dams on ecosystems, societies and political economies. He also analyses ... of the decision-making process for water resource development and tackles the

... investors -- officials of commercial and multi-lateral development banks, ... aid agencies, export credit agencies and governments -- with an overview of the benefits, costs, and risks associated with dam investments,