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"This paper explores disparities in local public service provision between decentralized districts in Ghana using district- and household-level data.
The paper looks at the institutional and policy reforms in the context of sources and uses of water. Although the reform measures have been specific about surface water, there still is ambiguity on the groundwater situation in India.
In many countries around the world, increasing attention is being directed to the need to improve water rights systems.
Institutions do matter in managing water scarcity. Institutional reforms in water sector in recent years have tried to replace the existing command-and-control approach with more innovative and comprehensive marketbased approach.
Tradable water right systems are becoming important ways to achieve distributive efficiency in water resources. In 2002, China's Ministry of Water Resources initiated a pilot project in Zhangye City in Northwest China.