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Abstract
The Second Edition of the Price of Water expands on the coverage of the first edition and ambitiously develops the theme of the proper management of river basins, both with respect to the control of rivers’ water quality and the defence of their quantitative flows from source to sea. Using the hydrosocial balance concept of the first edition, and the grand theory of catchment water deficits, a remarkable breakthrough is made in understanding how river flows are destroyed by human society. Drawing on extensive empirical research into the Kafue River Basin and the Thames River Basin, it is shown that the exhaustion of river flows that we see on a world-wide scale can be explained by just five measurable ‘drivers’ to basin surplus and basin deficit. Moreover, by specifying the key drivers and measuring their value, the basis is provided for economic, engineering and land management strategies that will reverse river basin destruction.
Bringing together 20 papers previously published in refereed journals, The Price of Water provides information that many readers would not otherwise have been able to access to through their professional and academic libraries. The scope of the book is broad, dealing with a diverse range of subjects such as regional and catchment planning and integrated water resources management. Topics considered include: both water quantities and qualities drought management the "virtual water" controversy farmers water-rights the economic demand for water the design of abstraction charges the cost and use of irrigation water the design of effluent charges the "willingness-to-pay" methodology catchment water deficits water resource impacts of new property construction water leakage impact on river basins managing water quality within EC directives.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | v | ||
| Preface | x | ||
| 1 Introduction: getting to grips with water | 1 | ||
| 1.1 Instream and outstream | 1 | ||
| 1.2 Reuse and recycling | 2 | ||
| 1.3 Catchment and region | 2 | ||
| 1.4 Four interpretations of demand | 2 | ||
| 1.5 Pricing the resource | 3 | ||
| 1.6 Studies of household water use and the willingness-to-pay for water | 4 | ||
| 1.7 Tearing up water and floating on water-rights? | 5 | ||
| 1.8 Catchment water deficits | 5 | ||
| 1.9 The virtual water controversy | 7 | ||
| 1.10 Final remarks | 8 | ||
| 2 The regional water balance statement: a new tool for water resources planning | 9 | ||
| 2.1 Introduction | 9 | ||
| 2.2 The rules of the game | 10 | ||
| 2.3 The supply categories | 13 | ||
| 2.4 Water storage | 14 | ||
| 2.5 The use categories | 15 | ||
| 2.6 The change statement | 16 | ||
| 2.7 The uses of regional statements | 18 | ||
| 2.8 Conclusions | 19 | ||
| 3 Integrated water resources management and the hydrosocial balance | 20 | ||
| 3.1 Introduction | 20 | ||
| 3.2 A new implement for the IWRM toolbox | 20 | ||
| 3.3 The bridge between quantity and quality | 21 | ||
| 3.4 The physical geography and hydrology of Jersey | 24 | ||
| 3.5 Water supply in Jersey | 24 | ||
| 3.6 Water use in Jersey | 27 | ||
| 3.7 Water quality in Jersey | 28 | ||
| 3.8 Conclusions | 34 | ||
| 4 Sharing the benefits of the river basin’s water economy | 37 | ||
| 4.1 Introduction | 37 | ||
| 4.2 Benefits of the water economy | 37 | ||
| 4.3 Basin water productivity | 41 | ||
| 4.4 Sharing the benefits | 41 | ||
| 4.5 Conclusions: negotiating the benefits | 42 | ||
| 5 Farm-level drought management: an irrigation case-study from the UK | 43 | ||
| 5.1 Introduction | 43 | ||
| 5.2 The Anglian Region | 44 | ||
| 5.3 Silver Birches plc | 45 | ||
| 5.4 Drought management: the infrastructural strategy | 47 | ||
| 5.5 Drought management: the informational strategy 5 | 51 | ||
| 5.6 Conclusion | 56 | ||
| 6 The potential role for economic instruments in drought management | 58 | ||
| 6.1 Introduction | 58 | ||
| 6.2 The water economy | 59 | ||
| 6.3 The Anglian Region | 59 | ||
| 6.4 The Region’s water economy | 60 | ||
| 6.5 The Agency’s drought plan | 62 | ||
| 6.6 Anglian water services’ drought plan | 63 | ||
| 6.7 Drought plans and the water economy | 64 | ||
| 6.8 Economic instruments | 65 | ||
| 6.9 Conclusions | 67 | ||
| 7 ‘Virtual water’ and Occam’s razor | 68 | ||
| 7.1 Introduction | 68 | ||
| 7.2 A water deficit resolved | 69 | ||
| 7.3 A critique of the virtual water thesis | 70 | ||
| 7.4 Occam’s razor | 71 | ||
| 7.5 Conclusion | 71 | ||
| 8 Virtual water and the Kyoto consensus | 72 | ||
| 8.1 The use of metaphor | 72 | ||
| 8.2 Crops, crop water and water deficits | 73 | ||
| 8.3 The Kyoto consensus | 74 | ||
| 9 The urban market for farmers’ water-rights | 77 | ||
| 9.1 Introduction | 77 | ||
| 9.2 The urban actors’ demand function | 78 | ||
| 9.3 The farmers’ supply function | 80 | ||
| 9.4 The limits to theory | 80 | ||
| 9.5 Conclusions | 85 | ||
| 10 The demand for water: four interpretations | 86 | ||
| 10.1 Introduction | 86 | ||
| 10.2 The use of water | 87 | ||
| 10.3 The consumption of water | 88 | ||
| 10.4 The need for water | 88 | ||
| 10.5 The economic demand for water | 88 | ||
| 10.6 Supply-side leakage and evaporation | 89 | ||
| 10.7 Conclusions | 90 | ||
| 11 The political economy of water abstraction charges | 91 | ||
| 11.1 Introduction | 91 | ||
| 11.2 Abstraction charges and the theory of rent | 92 | ||
| 11.3 A charge-setting taxonomy | 93 | ||
| 11.4 Abstraction charges and sustainable catchment management | 96 | ||
| 11.5 The impact on users | 98 | ||
| 11.6 Final remarks | 99 | ||
| 12 Twelve theses on the cost and use of irrigation water | 101 | ||
| 12.1 Thesis 1 | 101 | ||
| 12.2 Thesis 2 | 101 | ||
| 12.3 Thesis 3 | 101 | ||
| 12.4 Thesis 4 | 102 | ||
| 12.5 Thesis 5 | 102 | ||
| 12.6 Thesis 6 | 102 | ||
| 12.7 Thesis 7 | 102 | ||
| 12.8 Thesis 8 | 102 | ||
| 12.9 Thesis 9 | 103 | ||
| 12.10 Thesis 10 | 103 | ||
| 12.11 Thesis 11 | 103 | ||
| 12.12 Thesis 12 | 103 | ||
| 13 Behavioural studies of the domestic demand for water services in Africa | 104 | ||
| 13.1 A methodological revolution | 104 | ||
| 13.2 Market networks for water | 106 | ||
| 13.3 The uses of water | 108 | ||
| 13.4 Objects or subjects? | 110 | ||
| 13.5 The discrete choice model | 113 | ||
| 13.6 Conclusions | 114 | ||
| 14 Deconstructing households’ willingness-to-pay for water in low-income countries | 116 | ||
| 14.1 Introduction | 116 | ||
| 14.2 Survey methods | 117 | ||
| 14.3 Sign and behaviour | 118 | ||
| 14.4 Demand theory and survey practice | 119 | ||
| 14.5 The affordability question | 120 | ||
| 14.6 The treatment of substitutes | 121 | ||
| 14.7 Sign and sanction | 123 | ||
| 14.8 Private agendas | 124 | ||
| 14.9 Anchor prices | 126 | ||
| 14.10 Conclusion | 128 | ||
| 15 Industrial effluent policy: economic instruments and environmental regulation | 130 | ||
| 15.1 Introduction | 130 | ||
| 15.2 The generation and regulation of industrial effluent | 131 | ||
| 15.3 The objectives of disposal charges | 132 | ||
| 15.4 The demand for waste water services | 133 | ||
| 15.5 The measurement of pollution | 135 | ||
| 15.6 The design of disposal charges: the utilities | 136 | ||
| 15.7 The design of disposal charges: the environmental regulator | 137 | ||
| 15.8 Conclusions | 138 | ||
| 16 Nitrate pollution on the Island of Jersey: managing water quality within European community directives | 140 | ||
| 16.1 Introduction | 140 | ||
| 16.2 Nitrate pollution of groundwater and surface waters | 141 | ||
| 16.3 Water quality management by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries | 143 | ||
| 16.4 Water quality management by the JNWWC | 144 | ||
| 16.5 Water quality management of domestic abstractions: the Department of Environmental Health | 147 | ||
| 16.6 Water quality management of waste water discharges: the Environment and Public Services Department | 148 | ||
| 16.7 The benefits of nitrate pollution management | 149 | ||
| 16.8 Conclusions | 155 | ||
| 17 Catchment water deficits in the twenty-first century | 158 | ||
| 17.1 Introduction | 158 | ||
| 17.2 The Dwyer catchment | 160 | ||
| 17.3 Redemptive options (I) | 161 | ||
| 17.4 Redemptive options (II) | 163 | ||
| 17.5 From surplus to deficit | 164 | ||
| 17.6 Framework, theory and empirical studies | 165 | ||
| 17.7 Conclusion | 166 | ||
| 18 Catchment water deficits: an application to Zambia’s Kafue river basin | 167 | ||
| 18.1 Introduction: the general hypothesis | 167 | ||
| 18.2 The Kafue River Basin | 168 | ||
| 18.3 Groundwater abstraction | 170 | ||
| 18.4 The economic demand for water | 171 | ||
| 18.5 The supply of food | 172 | ||
| 18.6 Environmental needs | 172 | ||
| 18.7 Conclusions | 173 | ||
| 19 The Thames catchment: a River Basin at the tipping point | 178 | ||
| 19.1 Introduction | 178 | ||
| 19.2 The Kafue catchment | 179 | ||
| 19.3 The analysis of densities | 179 | ||
| 19.4 The Thames River Basin | 181 | ||
| 19.5 The Thames in water deficit? | 185 | ||
| 19.6 Density analysis of the Thames River Basin | 186 | ||
| 19.7 Tipping deeper into deficit | 188 | ||
| 19.8 Conclusion | 189 | ||
| 20 Water resource impacts of new housebuilding in the Thames Region: 2006–2025 | 191 | ||
| 20.1 Introduction | 191 | ||
| 20.2 The baseline situation | 192 | ||
| 20.3 The increase in homes 2006–2025 | 194 | ||
| 20.4 Addition and subtraction | 194 | ||
| 20.5 Choices | 196 | ||
| 21 Beneficial impacts for the Thames River Basin of water company leakage reduction 2006–2025 | 198 | ||
| 21.1 Introduction | 198 | ||
| 21.2 Leakage in the Thames Region: some basic facts | 199 | ||
| 21.3 Forecasting the reduction in total leakage | 200 | ||
| 21.4 Conclusions | 203 | ||
| Bibliography | 205 | ||
| Index | 214 |