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Part one Governance in Water Management & Water System in EgyptOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
This research presents the role of water and its importance for the different economic sectors in Egypt, and focuses on the Economic tools for improving water governance and the relation between improving Water Governance and achieving economic green growth. Some of the developing and developed countries experience were presented.
The research problem is to know the importance of Water Governance especially its economic instruments, in the light of the experiences from the other developing and developed countries. The study also tries to find answers to the following questions: What do we mean by Water Governance? What is the relation between the water governance and green growth? What is the Water problem in Egypt? How could Egypt benefit from the experiences of the other countries? What is the Water role in the different Economic Sectors? How could improving water governance affect the green economic growth?
These questions were answered throughout the four chapters of the study. The first part discusses the particular features of Water Resources System in Egypt including Water Resources National Balance, Institutional Framework and Challenges facing the Water Resources Sector. An introduction to Governance in Water Management, Green Growth and Poverty Alleviation.
The second part addresses Water governance status in Egypt and the challenges faced. In addition, some of the developing and developed countries experience were presented.
The Third part, deals with the role of water and its importance for the different economic sectors in Egypt, the Economic tools for improving water governance in Egypt and the relation between improving Water Governance and Economic growth.
Finally, the last part the research performs a modelling exercise on the private and social profitability of a rice farming system located in Egypt, The policy analysis matrix and techniques of efficiency analysis based on data envelopment analysis are combined.
The study ends to some results and recommendations including: Egypt is facing great challenges regarding its economy in general, and agriculture and rural development (ARD) in particular, such as food shortage, water insufficiency for agricultural purposes, the extreme poverty among small-scale farmers, lack of coordination and integration between various stakeholders, complicated local administration system and centralization, and declined governmental investments in the agriculture sector. Though, all these challenges require restructuring Egypt’s governance in agriculture and rural development and institutional reform. On the other hand, Egypt has taken good steps in improving water governance but still need more improvements. It could benefit from the other countries experience in water Governance by developing and applying policies and strategies which is suitable to its Social and Economic Circumstances. Institutional and legislation from Morocco and EU countries experience, cost recovery and water pricing from Tunis experience, and participation from Jordan and Spain experience. Also, There is a relation between improving water governance and Economic growth through setting a cost recovery tariff for water that increase the water use efficiency and maximizing crop value per DROP (Water productivity), and focusing on high-value crops that generate income and employment opportunities. in addition to minimizing the Water footprint by adopting production techniques that require less water per unit of product, shifting to consumptions patterns that require less water and shifting production from areas with low water-productivity to areas with high water productivity. Virtual water can be regarded as an alternative source of water. Virtual water import can be used by national governments as a tool to release the pressure on their domestic water resources. The Policy Analysis Matrix will be useful in setting the future agriculture polices and the cropping pattern that take into consideration the cost of water used.