Integrated Water Resource Management in the Kurdistan Region

by Heshmati, Almas

• ISBN13: 9781607412953
• ISBN10: 1607412950
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-01
• Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc

Summary

This book examines the current economic practices of water management in the Southern Kurdistan Region (SKR) and suggests ways to change environmental conditions to encourage the region's decision-makers to pursue sustainable resource development through interstate and within Kurdistan Region KRG-consumers' co-operation. The focus is on: making a comparative study of water resources between Iraq, its neighbouring countries, MENA and the world averages; conducting a sector analysis to identify and quantify available water resources, the needs and sub-optimality in their uses; analysing current allocation of water and quantifying and suggesting necessary reductions in wasteful use of water resources; designing water policies and suggesting measures that improve regional water planning and management practices; developing techniques and models in the projection of demand, supply and future utilisation patterns and quantification of the water gap; suggesting alternatives for provision of water to areas facing scarcity on the basis of sustainable long-term and minimum cost solutions; suggesting necessary mechanisms for approaching interstate co-operation and for participating in the building of inter-regional institutions; proposing economically and environmentally optimal practices for within region and interstate co-operation and resource management; suggesting opportunities for increased government investment in the development and management of the water market.

Table of Contents

Foreword by the Minister of Water Resources

Introduction and background to the project

Review of the literature on economics and management of water resources

A comparative regional study of water resources

Kurdistan Region water resources in an historical and regional perspectives

Current state of water resources in Kurdistan Region

Characteristics of the main consumers of water resources

A new water resources plan and policies for the Kurdistan Region

Summary and conclusions of integrated water resources management in the Kurdistan Region

Summary and conclusions of integrated water resources management in the Kurdistan Region

An Introduction to the Ministry of Water Resources

Organisational chart of the MOWR

Index

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