Water scarcity in the desert metropolis: how environmental values, knowledge and concern affect Las Vegas residents’ support for water conservation policy

2013 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 588-611 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Salvaggio ◽  
Robert Futrell ◽  
Christie D. Batson ◽  
Barbara G. Brents
Keyword(s):  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
Environmental Values ◽  
Conservation Policy

Choosing the optimal water conservation policy

1983 ◽  
Vol 75 (7) ◽  
pp. 324-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. Lord ◽  
James A. Chase ◽  
Laura A. Winterfield
Keyword(s):  
Water Conservation ◽  
Conservation Policy

scholarly journals Experience is Key: Examining the Relative Importance of Factors Influencing Individuals’ Water Conservation

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 1870 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derrick Holland ◽  
Kristina Janét ◽  
Asheley Landrum
Keyword(s):  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Message Framing ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Resource Managers

Conservation of our global natural resources is one of the most pressing concerns facing our international society. One of these crucial resources is water. The current study sought to understand how individual factors such as experience with water scarcity, message framing, and ideology can impact perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors related to water conservation. Through the utilization of an online experiment, the current findings suggest that higher levels of experience with water scarcity predict more concern, more positive credibility perceptions of water conservation messages, and a higher likelihood of conserving water in the future. Message framing, specifically gain frames, predicted more concern and more positive perceptions of message credibility, and ideology only predicted perceptions of message credibility. Implications for global communities, resource managers, and policy decision-makers are discussed.

scholarly journals nalyzing the effectiveness of Water Conservation Fee amidst growing water scarcity in India

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 147-149
Author(s):  
Zainab Khorakiwala
Keyword(s):  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Groundwater Resources ◽  
Significant Issue ◽  
Critical Areas

Water scarcity has become a significant issue in India, causing the central government to take various measures in addressing the issue through conservation efforts. This includes revising existing and formulating new regulation guidelines, creating awareness about conservation methods, and identifying critical and over-critical areas. In 2018, the concerned ministry endorsed the suggestion to levy Water Conservation Fee (WCF) on industrial, commercial, domestic and agricultural users of water in a bid to conserve depleting groundwater resources. The following paper aims to analyze the effectiveness of WCF, highlighting two major impediments to its success.

scholarly journals Storage height optimization of Chamravattom regulator-cumbridge, Kerala

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-178
Author(s):  
Gulja S. Nair ◽  
Neenu Peter
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Specific Objective ◽  
Quality Water

Water scarcity is an alarming problem that we face now-a-days. Even though we have abundant sources of water, good quality water is not available when most needed. There comes the relevance of water conservation structures. Allocation of water in case of multipurpose projects among various competing needs such as drinking water, irrigation, industrial demands, downstream release, pisciculture etc. is a matter of great concern. Hence reservoirs must be subjected to thorough analysis to see that each drop of water impounded is utilized in the best possible manner. So a study was undertaken for the proposed Regulator-Cum-Bridge (RCB) on Bharathapuzha River at Chamravattom in Malappuram district of Kerala, with the specific objective of determining the optimum storage height of the regulator. The storage height was optimized by considering the inflow and demands on the reservoir for 18 years data. The height was decided as six meters as it gave least deficit when compared to four and five meters.

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