Contents
Preface / xv Acknowledgments / xvii Acronyms and Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Beyond WRM— Unbundling Water Management in MNA Countries N. Vijay Jagannathan, Ahmed Shawky Mohamed, and Christopher J. Perry / 1
SECTION 1. ASSESSMENT / 17 2. Bridging the Practice Gap in Water Management: Lessons from the “MNA Development Report on Water” N. Vijay Jagannathan / 19
3. Egypt: Water Sector Public Expenditure Review Ahmed Shawky Mohamed and N. Vijay Jagannathan / 37
4. Assessing the Efficiency and Equity of Water Subsidies: Spending Less for Better Services Ahmed Shawky Mohamed, Alexander Kremer, and Manish Kumar / 59
5. Applications of Latest Technologies and Hydrological Models in Water Resources Management and Planning in MNA Region Bekele Debele Negewo, Julia Bucknall, and Ahmed Shawky Mohamed / 79
6. Water Resource Assessment in the Arab World: New Analytical Tools for New Challenges Christopher J. Perry and Julia Bucknall / 97
7. Egypt Case Study: Energy Efficiency CDM Program: Irrigation and Drainage Pumping Sector Abdulhamid Azad / 119
8. Accountable Water and Sanitation Governance: Japan’s Experience Satoru Ueda and Mohammed Benouahi / 131
9. Tunisia’s Experience in Water Resource Mobilization and Management Mohamed El Hedi Louati and Julia Bucknall / 157
10. Lessons from the Rehabilitation of the Water Supply and Sanitation Sector in Post-War Iraq Sana Agha Al Nimer / 181
11. Governance in Yemen’s Water Sector: Lessons from the Design of an Anticorruption Action Plan Maher Abu-Taleb and Richard Calkins / 191
SECTION 2. BARGAINING / 211
12. Water Allocation Conflict Management: Case Study of Bitit, Morocco Rachid Abdellaoui / 213
13. How Did a Small, Poor, and Remote Rural Village in Djibouti Recently Become a Government Priority to Receive Water Supply and Sanitation? Sarah Houssein, in collaboration with Julia Bucknall and Nathalie Abu-Ata / 229
14. Water Conflict in Yemen: The Case for Strengthening Local Resolution Mechanisms Christopher Ward / 233
15. Water Diplomacy in the 21st Century N. Vijay Jagannathan / 269
SECTION 3. CODIFICATION / 283
16. Comparative Analysis of Water Laws in MNA Countries Jackson Morill and Jose Simas / 285
17. Subsidies for the Poor: An Innovative Output-Based Aid Approach Providing Basic Services to Poor Periurban Neighborhoods in Morocco Xavier Chauvot de Beauchêne and Pier Mantovani / 335
18. Use of Output-Based Aid to Jumpstart a Rural Water Supply Service Market in Morocco Xavier Chauvot de Beauchêne and Pier Mantovani / 345
19. New Approaches to Private Sector Participation in Irrigation: Lessons from Egypt’s West Delta Project Aldo Baietti and Safwat Abdel-Dayem / 355
SECTION 4. DELEGATION 365
20. Participatory Irrigation Management and Cost-Sharing in Yemen Naji Abu Hatim and Ahmed Shawky Mohamed / 367
21. Community Management of Rural Water Supply: Evaluation of User Satisfaction in Yemen Susmita Dasgupta, Craig Meisner, Andrew Makokha, and Richard Pollard / 383
22. Rural Sanitation within an IWRM Framework: Case Study of Application in the Delta Region, Egypt Ayat Soliman, Ahmed Shawky Mohamed, Maged Hamed, Wendy Wakeman, and Mohammed Mehany / 401
23. Water Management in Spain: Highlights Relevant for MNA Countries Ahmed Shawky Mohamed, Abdulhamid Azad, and Alexander Bakalian / 421 SECTION 5. ENGINEERING / 431
24. Egypt: Irrigation Innovations in the Nile Delta Jose Simas, Juan Morelli, and Hani El Sadani / 433
25. Water Reuse in the MNA Region: Constraints, Experiences, and Policy Recommendations Claire Kfouri, Pier Mantovani, and Marc Jeuland / 447
26. Desalination Opportunities and Challenges in the Middle East and North Africa Region Khairy Al-Jamal and Manuel Schiffler / 479
27. Enhancing the Socioeconomic Viability of Spate Irrigation through Conjunctive Use in Coastal Areas in Yemen: Case Study of Wadi Ahwar Arjen de Vries and Tarun Ghawana. Supervised by Ahmed Shawky Mohamed / 497
Appendix A1. List of Authors / 52 |