Water as an Economic Good: A Solution, or a Problem?

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/3784
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Type:	Working Paper
Author:	Perry, C.J.; Rock, Michael; Seckler, David
Date:	1997
Agency:	International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka
Series:	IWMI Research Report, no. 14
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/3784
Sector:	Water Resource & Irrigation
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Subject(s):	water resources water management irrigation agriculture privatization
Abstract:	"Discusses the potential opportunities and pitfalls of introducing market forces into the process of water allocation. Proposes several preconditions for beneficial privatization of water allocation and argues for a more sophisticated form of analysis than that generally allowed by proponents of basic needs or of free market approaches."

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