Water at any price? Issues and options in charging for irrigation water

Irrigation and Drainage

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-7

  Perry, Chris ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^b Wyclif Croyde   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Incentives; Irrigation; Water management; Water pricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012059635     PISSN: 15310353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ird.8     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Briscoe J. 1996. Water as an economic good: the idea and what it means in practice. Paper presented to World Congress of ICID, Cairo, Egypt.
2. Global Water Partnership. 2000. Vision and Framework for Action. Stockholm, February.
3. Jones WI. 1995. The World Bank and Irrigation. Washington DC.
4. Keller A, Keller J. 1995. Effective Efficiency: a Water Use Efficiency Concept for Allocating Freshwater Resources. Water Resources and Irrigation Division, Discussion Paper 22. Winrock International: Arlington, VA, USA.
5. Malhotra SP. 1982. The Warabandhi System and its Infrastructure. Central Board of Irrigation and Power: New Delhi, India.
6. Molden D, Sakthivadivel R, Perry CJ, de Fraiture C, Kloezen W. 1998. Indicators for Comparing Performance of Irrigated Agricultural Systems. IWMI Research Report 20, IWMI: Colombo.
7. Perry CJ. 1995. Alternative Approaches to Cost Sharing for Water Sen-ice to Agriculture in Egypt. Research Report 2, International Irrigation Management Institute: Colombo, Sri Lanka.
8. Ray, Isha. (Forthcoming). Farm-level incentives for irrigation efficiency: some lessons from an Indian canal. Water Resources Update, Universities Council on Water Resources, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois.
9. Rosegrant M, Binswanger H. 1994. Markets in tradable water rights: potential for efficiency gains in developing country water allocation. World Development 22(22): 1613-1625.
10. Short, Clare (Secretary of State for International Development, UK). Address to ODI-SOAS, London, 14th March 2000.
11. WMO. 1992. The Dublin Statement and Report of the Conference, International Conference on Water and the Environment. Geneva, Switzerland.
12. World Bank. 1986. World Bank Lending Conditionality: a Review of Cost Recovery in Irrigation Projects. Washington DC. World Bank. 2000. Draft water sector policy. Washington DC.