The Economics of Water Management in Southern Africa

An Environmental Accounting Approach

Glenn-Marie Lange, The World Bank Environment Department, US and Rashid Hassan, Professor of Environmental Economics and Director, Centre for Environment and Economic Policy in Africa, University of Pretoria, South Africa

This book presents a valuable new tool for water management – water resource accounting – which significantly advances the economic analysis of water. Water resource accounts integrate detailed information about water supply and use with national income accounts to show the economic use of water, costs and tariffs paid, and the economic value of water for different economic uses.