Cities versus agriculture: revisiting intersectoral water transfers, potential gains and conflicts

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Climate change, water resources, and the politics of adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa (2011, background): “One striking feature of many MENA political economies is the long-standing commitment to expanding irrigated agriculture, often by “overbuilding” irrigation infrastructures beyond physical capacities of river basins and aquifers (Molle and Berkhoff 2006).”
Rural water for thirsty cities: a systematic review of water reallocation from rural to urban regions (2019, background): “Molle and Berkoff (2006, 2009) distinguish between reallocation governed ‘by water rights’ (‘free markets’, ‘regulated markets’, or ‘legalmeans’) and ‘by administrative decisions’ (by ‘formal decision’ or ‘transfer by stealth’) (2006: 14), which highlights the contrast between voluntary versus…”