Water Resources Allocation GLOBAL ISSUES IN WATER POLICY VOLUME 1 Series Editors Ariel Dinar José Albiac Eric D. Mungatana Víctor Pochat Rathinasamy Maria Saleth For other titles published in this series, go to http://www.springer.com/series/8877 Phoebe Koundouri Editor Water Resources Allocation Policy and Socioeconomic Issues in Cyprus Editor Phoebe Koundouri Athens University of Economics and Business Department of International and European Economic Studies (DIEES) 76, Patission Street, Athens 104 34 Greece [email protected] ISBN 978-90-481-9824-5 e-ISBN 978-90-481-9825-2 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-9825-2 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010936820 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) To Professor David Pearce, who unexpectedly left us, when this book was being written. David, you have been a teacher, mentor, colleague, friend and will always be an inspiration. I have been honored to have met you, learned from you and to have worked with you. Your loss will be deeply felt but your legacy will endure long into the future and over the world. To my beloved family in Cyprus, who always urged me to write about the water situation in the island. Acknowledgments I am personally indebt to Professor Ariel Dinar. This book was his initiative and it would not have been completed without his continuous help, encouragement and constructive comments. My overwhelming debt goes to all the contributing authors of this book for their devotion to the completion of their chapters and for putting up with my, seemingly endless, suggestions for revisions. Thanks are also due to a number of employees from the Water Development Department in Cyprus, who read the original draft of the book and provided me with an interdisciplinary feed- back that enriched my understanding of scientific and policy water related issues. I am grateful to my colleagues at the University of Reading and University College London in the UK, with whom I was affiliated when I started working on this book, as well as my current colleagues at the Athens University of Economics and Business in Greece. They are a continuous source of insightful comments and suggestions. Finally, my gratitude goes to my beloved family in Cyprus, who always urged me to write about the island, and all those near and dear to me, for putting up with many hours of neglect, most of all Chrysilia and Nikitas. vii Contents 1 Introduction ............................................................................................... 1 Phoebe Koundouri and Ekin Birol 2 Water Resources in Cyprus: Endowments and Water Management Practices .......................................................... 11 Iacovos Iacovides 3 Water Use Patterns in Cyprus and Demand Management: Towards Water Resources Sustainability ............................................... 23 Iacovos Iacovides 4 The Implementation of the European Union Water Framework Directive in Cyprus .............................................................. 33 Ekin Birol, Phoebe Koundouri, and Kyriaki Remoundou 5 Water Management: Administration and Legislation ........................... 45 Iacovos Iacovides 6 Water Policy Networks: A New Form of Governance for Cyprus? The Case of Nicosia ................................... 65 Anthi Dionissia Brouma and Cahit Ezel 7 The Economics of Water Resource Allocation: Valuation Methods and Policy Implications ........................................... 89 Ben Groom and Phoebe Koundouri 8 Integrated Water Resources Planning in Cyprus .................................. 111 George Socratous 9 Water Pricing Policy in Cyprus: The Implications of the Water Framework Directive .......................................................... 125 George Socratous ix x Contents 10 Water Resources Management and Wetland Conservation: The Case of Akrotiri Wetland in Cyprus ..................... 141 Ekin Birol, Phoebe Koundouri, and Yiannis Koundouris 11 Facing the Future: Concluding Remarks ............................................. 157 Phoebe Koundouri, Ekin Birol, and Cahit Ezel Index ................................................................................................................. 163