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Can economic models help countries make better water-related decision?

Water scarcity is a basic problem in many regions of the world. The consequences of this are black markets for drinking water, unauthorised water extrac...

Jordan signed a deal with the government in Jerusalem two years ago for doubling the desalinized water supply to Jordan to the tune of 50 million cubic meters a year.

Water scarcity is a basic problem in many regions of the world. The consequences of this are black markets for drinking water, unauthorised water extraction from private wells, and the uncontrolled decline of groundwater supplies. For Jordan, one of the world’s most arid countries, a team of international scientists coordinated by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) has analysed the role of water markets and discusses the increasing dependence of the population on illegal water trade in an article published in Nature Sustainability. The article identifies solutions with whi...

It is very easy to take tap water for granted. But sobering predictions of recent research around Jordan's water supply, where climate change, populatio...