Water Policy and Water Markets · Selected Papers and Proceedings From the World Bank's Ninth Annual Irrigation and Drainage Seminar Held in Annapolis, Maryland, December 8-10, 1992

This volume presents selected papers and proceedings from the World Bank's Ninth annual Irrigation and Drainage Seminar held December 8 - 10 in Annapolis, Maryland. The volume has three Sections. Section I (Water Policy) has the text of a keystone address on water issues in the Middle East and North Africa plus portions of the executive summary of the World Bank's 1993 water resources policy paper and a paper emphasizing the use of a model to influence policy decisions in China's Yellow River Basin. Section II (Irrigation and Drainage) reviews the World Bank's irrigation and drainage experience and the attitudes of water resources professionals towards problems in this area. Section III (Water Markets) contains seven papers on general aspects of water markets, observations on their suitability for several regions of the world, and case studies including Chile, the western United States, Mexico, and Spain.