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Offering a cross-country examination and comparison of drought
awareness and experience, this book shows how scientists, water
managers, and policy makers approach drought and water scarcity in
arid and semi-arid regions of Spain, Mexico, Australia, South
Africa and the United States.
Leaving aside human and social capital for a future volume, the
book should be viewed as a crucial first step in developing
indicators for total wealth in the countries covered by the case
studies, which include Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia,
Mozambique and South Africa. These case studies experiment with
implementing the SEAA in sub-Saharan nations known to suffer from
the 'resource curse': their wealth in resources and commodities has
allowed inflows of liquidity, yet this cash has not funded crucial
developments in infrastructure or education. What's more,
resource-driven economies are highly vulnerable to commodity price
mutability. The new measures of wealth deployed here offer more
hope for the future in these countries than they themselves would
once have allowed for.
Offering a cross-country examination and comparison of drought
awareness and experience, this book shows how scientists, water
managers, and policy makers approach drought and water scarcity in
arid and semi-arid regions of Spain, Mexico, Australia, South
Africa and the United States.
Leaving aside human and social capital for a future volume, the
book should be viewed as a crucial first step in developing
indicators for total wealth in the countries covered by the case
studies, which include Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia,
Mozambique and South Africa. These case studies experiment with
implementing the SEAA in sub-Saharan nations known to suffer from
the 'resource curse': their wealth in resources and commodities has
allowed inflows of liquidity, yet this cash has not funded crucial
developments in infrastructure or education. What's more,
resource-driven economies are highly vulnerable to commodity price
mutability. The new measures of wealth deployed here offer more
hope for the future in these countries than they themselves would
once have allowed for.
One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after
emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a
remarkable, consultative process. The policy and legal reforms were
comprehensive and covered almost all aspects of water management
including revolutionary changes in defining and allocating rights
to water, radical reforms in water management and supply
institutions, the introduction of the protection of environmental
flows, and major shifts in charging for water use and in the
provision of free basic water. Over ten years of implementation of
these policy and legislative changes mean that valu-able lessons
have already been learned and useful experiences gained in the
challenge of effective water resources management and water
services provision in a middle income country.
One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after
emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a
remarkable, consultative process. The policy and legal reforms were
comprehensive and covered almost all aspects of water management
including revolutionary changes in defining and allocating rights
to water, radical reforms in water management and supply
institutions, the introduction of the protection of environmental
flows, and major shifts in charging for water use and in the
provision of free basic water. Over ten years of implementation of
these policy and legislative changes mean that valu-able lessons
have already been learned and useful experiences gained in the
challenge of effective water resources management and water
services provision in a middle income country.
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