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Abstract
Worldwide growing water scarcity has increased the call
for economic instruments to stimulate rational water use in
agriculture which used to be the dominant waterconsuming
sector despite of its relatively low marginal
water productivity. Cost recovery is now widely accepted
as a tool for sustainable water management. Following, the
developing countries, where irrigation water is still often
highly subsidized, has a tendency for introducing irrigationwater
pricing as a policy to achieve more sustainable water
use. However, the use of such policy is not without its
negative consequences on the agriculture sector. Since the
Egyptian agricultural sector act as a major sector for the
development of the Egyptian economy, any policy affecting
it should be examined carefully regarding its potential
impacts on such vital sector. For this purpose, this study is
for the simulation of the potential impacts of pricing the
irrigation-water on the economic performance of the
agricultural sector in Egypt.