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Between regulation and targeted expropriation: rural-to-urban groundwater reallocation in Jordan
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In response to rising urban water demand, some regions have reallocated water from irrigation to more valuable uses. Groundwater over-exploitation, however, continues to degrade aquifer quality, and states rarely succeed at stopping overuse. This study asks whether growing urban requirements enable the reallocation of groundwater from irrigation to higher value added uses in domestic and industrial consumption. The paper is based on a series of interviews with policy makers and academics in J...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Water Alternatives Association Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Water Alternatives Journal website
- Volume:
- 13
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 864-885
- Publication date:
- 2020-09-10
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-09-10
- ISSN:
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1965-0175
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- English
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1131430
- Local pid:
- pubs:1131430
- Deposit date:
- 2020-09-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Liptrot, T and Hussein, H
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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