Artificial shortage of surface water: how can water demand management mitigate the scarcity problem?

作者：Slavikova Lenka^*; Vojacek Ondrej; Smejkal Tomas

来源：Water and Environment Journal, 2017, 31(1): 12-19.

DOI：10.1111/wej.12217

• access rights
• climate change
• policy
• pricing
• water supply and demand

Water demand management stresses the crucial roles of water user motivations in balancing actual water availability and competing human needs. This paper shows how the absence of such motivations influences artificial water scarcity, even in resource-abundant countries, and how slight modifications to economic instruments (surface water charges in particular) might solve the problem. Data from the Czech Republic are used to illustrate the rationale behind the artificial scarcity problem and its solution. A model with feedback based on historical surface water abstraction data is built to simulate the impacts of different payment modification scenarios.

• 出版日期2017-2