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The operation of tertiary works in territorial water management systems - the stakes and obstacles to be overcomeMASZESZ Hírcsatorna 2025/1 - journal articlesPublished: 9 of April, 2025

The need for landscape-scale water retention has been a topic of discussion in professional circles for years, and after the 2022 and the subsequent 2024 drought, the topic reached the media's attention. There is an increased societal demand for change ...

Determinants of water consumption in Hungarian municipalities - Estimating the price and income elasticity of residential consumers in the TRV service areajournal articlesPublished: 1 of April, 2025

In our recent analysis, we estimated the sensitivity of consumption to price and income in the service area of the Tiszamenti Regional Waterworks Ltd. The results show that the demand for piped drinking water is price and income inelastic, but more ...

The role of economic instruments in addressing conflicts of interest in water: allocation of scarce water resourcesHungarian Journal of Hydrology 2021. Volume 101 Special Issue - scholarly articlesPublished: 24 of February, 2021

Predictable access to sufficient water is one of the cornerstones of social well-being, but unlimited resources are available to a lower and lower extent in much of the world. Hungary's position is good for the time being, but there are signs of ...

Approaches to state flood recovery funding in Visegrad Group CountriesEnvironmental Hazards - scholarly articlesPublished: 3 of October, 2019

Flood recovery is an important period in the flood risk management cycle. Recently, flood recovery has become viewed as an opportunity for future flood damage mitigation. Financial flows to cover flood damages and rules regarding their allocation are ...

The economic policy concept assisting sustainable water management and the execution of river basin management plansscholarly articlesPublished: 14 of August, 2017

While the economic policy concept of the second river basin management plan (RBMP2) for 2015-2021 complies with the requirements of the WFD and the so called ex ante conditions, it also portrays the economic policy instruments that have been designed to ...

Case Study - Alföldvíz, HungaryThe Water Global Practice - scholarly articlesPublished: 1 of August, 2017

The Water Global Practice, under the WSS GSG Utility Turnaround thematic area, has implemented the Global Study on WSS Utility Aggregation to provide evidence-based guidance to policy makers and practitioners regarding when, why, and how water and ...

Case Study - Kiskun-Viz, HungaryThe Water Global Practice - scholarly articlesPublished: 1 of August, 2017

The Water Global Practice, under the WSS GSG Utility Turnaround thematic area, has implemented the Global Study on WSS Utility Aggregation to provide evidence-based guidance to policy makers and practitioners regarding when, why, and how water and ...

A simple compensation mechanism for flood protection services on farmlandLand Use Policy - scholarly articlesPublished: 12 of April, 2017

Reservoirs for the transient storage of water in order to lower river flood peaks would usually be built on farmland and used in case of a serious flood event. Farmers’ willingness to have their lands included in a reservoir critically depends on the ...