Information about the current state of water institutional frameworks, water infrastructure and water management policies in Libya enable the identification and evaluation of a range of options for improving water use efficiency in agriculture and the potential role of water pricing in achieving sustainability of water sources. This paper begins with an overview of...

This article explores the confluence of water crisis and social-political power in the 1860s in Algeria. An unprecedented series of environmental events ? ongoing drought, locust invasion, the outbreak of epidemic disease ? conspired with the privations of three decades of colonial rule to kill around 800,000 people between 1865 and 1870. This crisis was the impetu...