Summary and Conclusions

Alberto Garrido (), M. Ramón Llamas (), Consuelo Varela-Ortega (), Paula Novo (), Roberto Rodríguez-Casado () and Maite M. Aldaya ()
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Alberto Garrido: Technical University of Madrid (UPM)
M. Ramón Llamas: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Consuelo Varela-Ortega: Technical University of Madrid (UPM)
Paula Novo: Technical University of Madrid (UPM)
Roberto Rodríguez-Casado: Technical University of Madrid (UPM)
Maite M. Aldaya: University of Twente

Chapter Chapter 8 in Water Footprint and Virtual Water Trade in Spain, 2010, pp 125-136 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This work presents new evidence that helps to question existing paradigms and tenets related to water policy and management in Spain. Historically, the management of water resources has focused on the supply side, securing water access through an engineering approach that has been, in most cases, a costly endeavour from economic and environmental perspectives. These technical solutions have been based on a combination of reservoirs and inter-basin transfers resulting in increasing abstractions of both surface and groundwater, the latter being primarily tapped by private entrepreneurs. This approach rarely changed the incentive structures and, heavily based on command and control measures, failed to control groundwater use in most sectors, thus leaving the major driving forces of water use largely unchanged. This fact only partially has been considered in this work because of lack of consistent data on groundwater uses. It is expected that this gap will be changed soon when the hydrological plans of the river basins are finalised and submitted to the EU Commission in early 2010.

Keywords: Gross Domestic Product; Water Scarcity; Water Footprint; Virtual Water; Blue Water (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5741-2_8

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