Shared Borders, Shared Waters

Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Acronyms Key terms and definitions Introduction SUSANNA EDEN, ROBERT G. VARADY, SHARON B. MEGDAL AND JENNA CLEVELAND SECTION 1 Water development: Infrastructure and institutions 1 The development of water infrastructures in Israel: Past, present and future NAAMA TESCHNER AND MAYA NEGEV 2 Arizona's water infrastructure: A history of management and use DOUGLAS E. KUPEL 3 Key issues, institutions, and strategies for managing transboundary water resources in the Arizona-Mexico border region ROBERT G. VARADY, ROBERTO SALMON CASTELO AND SUSANNA EDEN SECTION 2 Political and economic perspectives on water 4 The role of creative language in addressing political realities: Middle-Eastern water agreements ITAY FISCHHENDLER, AARON T. WOLF AND GABRIEL ECKSTEIN 5 Revisiting water politics and policy in Israel: Policymaking under conditions of uncertainty SAMER ALATOUT 6 Water pricing in Israel in theory and practice YOAV KISLEV 7 Achieving water policy objectives through water pricing: A case study of Arizona's decentralized approach to water provision SHARON B. MEGDAL AND JORGE LARA ALVAREZ SECTION 3 Learning from comparison 8 Property systems and conservation of instream flows: Israel and the Western United States compared DAVID SCHORR 9 Water, land, and development: Comparative Arizona - Israeli- Palestinian perspective CHRISTOPHER SCOTT, JEAN-PHILIPPE VENOT AND FRANCOIS MOLLE 10 Perspectives on water conservation in Israel and Palestine: Foundations and future KRISTINA DONNELLY, NEDA ZAWAHRI AND CLIVE LIPCHIN SECTION 4 Challenges, new and old: Climate change and wastewater 11 Implications of climate change in Palestine AMJAD ALIEWI, P.E. O'CONNELL AND MOHAMMED N. ALMASRI 12 Climate change challenges and solutions for water managers GREGG M. GARFIN 13 Challenges of transboundary wastewater management for Palestinian communities along the Green Line - The Israeli-Palestinian border RASHED AL-SA'ED AND AHMAD M. AL-HINDI 14 Management of transboundary wastewater discharges ALON TAL SECTION 5 Expanding water supplies: Promising strategies and technologies 15 Expanding water resources in Arizona: Role of reuse in reaching sustainability KAREN L. SMITH 16 Desalination in Arizona: Challenges, applications and prospects WENDELL P. ELA AND JAMIE MCEVOY 17 Sea water desalination in Israel: Planning, coping with difficulties, and economic aspects of long-term risks ABRAHAM TENNE Concluding insights ROBERT G. VARADY, SUSANNA EDEN AND SHARON B. MEGDAL Bio sketches Index