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Transboundary pollution control with ecological compensation in a watershed containing multiple regions: A dynamic analysis Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Yongxi Yi, Min Yang, Chunyan Fu, Chao Li
A watershed consists of more than two regions intending to apply ecological compensation to solve the transboundary pollution problems. For this purpose, we develop a differential game model to investigate each region's optimal strategy and show the following main conclusions: (1) There is a set of optimal ecological compensation rates that improve the welfare of each region and produce Pareto improvement
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The impact of water rights trading on water resource use efficiency: Evidence from China's water rights trading pilots Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Ruiwen Yan, Nan Zhao, Yongyu Wang, Xiaojie Liu
With the increasing conflict between the supply and demand of water resources, enhancing water resource use efficiency has gradually become a focus of attention. As a new way to manage water resources, water rights trading pilots have been implemented in China. It is important to explore the impact of water rights trading on regional water resource use efficiency and possible impact paths. This paper
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Public preferences for water-conserving groundcovers on verges Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Claire Doll, Curtis Rollins, Michael Burton, David Pannell, Katrin Rehdanz, Jürgen Meyerhoff
Adapting to changes in water availability is becoming an increasingly important environmental management objective in many regions around the world. One way for cities to conserve water is to enhance drought-resistant vegetation cover. This revegetation practice can take place on many types of land, including road-side verges (also known as nature strips or boulevards), which, in Western Australia
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The impact of pricing structure change on residential water consumption: A long-term analysis of water utilities in California Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Juhee Lee, Mehdi Nemati, Maura Allaire, Ariel Dinar
California's demand-side urban water management policies, such as shifting water pricing structures from non-conservation to conservation-based rates, have received much attention in terms of meeting the state's short- and long-term water conservation policies. This paper quantifies the effect of pricing structure changes on residential water consumption using a survey dataset of 189 major California
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Scenario-based techno-economic analysis of pumped denitrification bioreactors Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Lindsey M. Hartfiel, Carolina Díaz-García, Laura E. Christianson, Michelle L. Soupir
Pumped denitrification bioreactors are currently being assessed in the field to extend the use of traditional, subsurface drainage bioreactors. Pumped bioreactors for the treatment of drainage ditches, surface waters, and cisterns intercepting drainage were evaluated to provide a basis of the unit cost of bioreactor operation ($ kg NO3–N removed−1) under a variety of scenarios. The unit costs were
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Using Best Worst Scaling to prioritise issues in major river catchments: The Murray Darling Basin in Australia Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 John Rolfe, Darshana Rajapaksa, Megan Star, Nicole Flint
There is an increasing focus on improving environmental health in major river catchments to address pressures from extensive modification and overuse. However, river catchments often involve many complex and competing uses, making it difficult to prioritise where remediation actions should be concentrated. In this research, the Best Worst Scaling (BWS) technique is applied to assess community views
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The economic benefits of remediation actions in the Waukegan harbor area of concern Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Emma Donnelly, Richard T. Melstrom, Lopamudra Chakraborti
This paper estimates the economic benefits of restoring the Waukegan Harbor Area of Concern (AOC) along the shore of Lake Michigan in Waukegan, Illinois. Legacy pollutants left from industrial activities are a threat to human and wildlife health and limit commercial and recreational activities in the harbor. The AOC has undergone substantial remediation since its designation in 1987. We estimate the
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A closer look at residential water demand elasticities in the short and long run Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Yvonne Matthews, Asaad Shamseldin
Hotter, drier summers and population growth are causing water management challenges for water authorities in New Zealand. Effective long-term planning requires understanding the dynamics of household responses to demand management and climate variables. This paper analyses a large dataset of household-level demand data over nine years. Dynamic panel time series models are used to estimate short and
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Estimation of a demand system to obtain the price elasticities of water and elasticities of substitution in the Chilean industrial sector Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Cristian Mardones, Antonia Orellana
A system of demand for inputs and productive factors is estimated to calculate the elasticities of substitution and the own-price elasticity of industrial water demand in Chile. A previous study used the Annual National Industrial Survey (ENIA) panel (1995–2014) to estimate the value of water and own-price elasticity through a translog production function. However, that database does not report the
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What builds consumer intention to use smart water meters – Extended TAM-based explanation Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Konstantinos Madias, Andrzej Szymkowiak, Barbara Borusiak
Water scarcity is an issue that affects the life on earth. Technological advancements, such as IoT water meters, are proven to be effective when it comes to household water reduction. However, there is a lack of research on what influences consumer to apply such devices in their households. This research aims to investigate predictors of the intention to apply smart water meters by extending the Technology
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Analyzing water-related equity indices in times of COVID-19 Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Manuel Monge, María Fátima Romero Rojo, Luis A. Gil-Alana
The impact of COVID-19 on water-related equity indices is analyzed in this paper for different regions around the world by using fractionally integrated methods and an artificial neural network model. Using fractional integration, a lack of mean reversion is observed in all cases except in the USA, which means that, for these regions, a change in the trend will be permanent after COVID-19 unless additional
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Household preferences for cyber-attack resilient water distribution networks: A latent class analysis of a discrete choice experiment in France Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Bénédicte Rulleau
Increasing concern over cyber-resilience has generated new research questions for policy and practice from both technical and economic viewpoints. In particular, the acknowledged importance of the adaptive behaviour of citizens when confronted with unexpected events requires an improved understanding of preferences for measures that seek to enhance the resilience of critical infrastructure. This paper
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Water value, irrigation policy, and implementation hazards in Vietnam’s rural economy Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Le Viet Phu
Irrigation plays a critical role in Vietnam’s rural economy and the national food security priority. The Vietnamese government has developed an extensive irrigation system and waived irrigation costs for farmers to reduce rural poverty. However, excessive use of water in agriculture has become a major concern. It is important to evaluate the value of water in order to encourage economical use. We use
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Why are municipal wastewater treatment plants abandoned in Mexico? When a more money policy approach is not enough Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Antonio Cáñez-Cota, César Rentería
The abandonment or closure of wastewater treatment plants is a potential problem in sanitation policies, where municipalities must decide which type of plant should build in their territory. We used an interaction effects model to test the effect of financial self-sufficiency in the operation of Mexican treatment plants in the national sanitation policy periods: the more money policy approach and the
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Household preferences for time and monetary contributions for river restoration: A study from the Danda River Basin in Nepal Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Niraj Khatiwada, Alok K. Bohara, Samrat B. Kunwar
Willingness to pay (WTP) has commonly been used as a metric for the valuation of environmental goods and services. Recent studies have also recommended the use of willingness to volunteer (WTV) as a measure for valuation, especially in developing countries with low monetary income and missing (or imperfect) labor markets. The joint households' decision to contribute money and time, however, is often
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Water consumption rationalization using demarketing strategies in the Gaza Strip, Palestine Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Mohammed Z. Salem, Myriam Ertz
Water access is a critical public policy problem that many people face worldwide. As demand for fresh water rises and supply declines, a growing number of regions and localities, including cities, will be compelled to respond to water shortages. Therefore, this paper aims to examine the rationalization of water consumption utilizing demarketing strategies in the Gaza Strip (GS), Palestine. The population
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Economic contribution and rebound effect of industrial water: The case of the Yangtze River Delta Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Dongying Sun, Mengxia Shi, Jiameng Wei, Zhisong Chen
Water scarcity can constrain industrial development, while industrial development can exacerbate the high consumption of industrial water, resulting in the industrial water rebound effect. This study measures the economic contribution of industrial water to industrial economic growth with the help of the Cobb-Douglas Production Function. Then industrial water rebound effect is estimated in the context
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Drinking water contamination and treatment costs Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-30 Arnt O. Hopland, Sturla F. Kvamsdal
This paper studies the relationship between drinking water contamination and treatment costs using a panel data for Norwegian local governments in the period 2003–2021. Because contamination and costs affect each other, we derive and estimate a set of reduced form equations that take the two-way causality into account. Our results indicate that while post-treatment contamination has little if any effect
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Assessing the cost-effectiveness of Nature-based Solutions under climate change uncertainty and learning Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Lennart G. Vogelsang, Hans-Peter Weikard, Jantsje M. van Loon-Steensma, Birgit Bednar-Friedl
While ongoing climate change requires effective adaptation strategies, decision-making on the scale, timing and location of adaptation measures remains challenging, as the extent and pace of climate change is uncertain. In particular, uncertainty surrounds the success of mitigation strategies and economic and demographic developments. While ‘grey’ measures, such as dikes and pumping, have been the
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Social and environmental nudges and water usage: Evidence from a field experiment in Iran Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Mehdi Feizi, Navideh Khatabiroudi
We nudged households in Torbat Heydarieh, a city in Iran, with social comparison and public environmental messages to decrease water consumption. In the former treatment, we provided subjects with their actual water consumption compared to their neighborhood’s minimum and average consumption. In the latter one, we illustrated some facts about the water crisis in Iran and each individual’s potential
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Reducing child diarrhoea in India: Shifting policy focus from source of water to quality Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Zakir Husain, Pallabi Das
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Are views of water bodies associated with higher water consumption? An empirical analysis from New Zealand Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Robbie Maris, Yvonne Matthews
Freshwater scarcity is worsening as we quickly approach the freshwater planetary boundary. There has been extensive research and policy development in the space of water scarcity, pollution and accessibility, centered around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A large body of literature examines household and climate characteristics predictive of water consumption by households. However, there
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Social opprobrium and compliance: Evidence from water conservation Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Ahmed Rachid El-Khattabi
In this paper, I investigate the joint impacts of top-down targets and social opprobrium on aggregate compliance with government mandates for resource conservation. I use data on urban water usage, local agency enforcement, and reports of water waste by private citizens in California during a period of severe drought in which a year-long mandate for water conservation was imposed. During the mandate
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Heterogeneity in the WTA-WTP disparity for irrigation water reliability Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Anastasio J. Villanueva, José A. Gómez-Limón
This paper assesses the WTP and WTA for improvements and deteriorations, respectively, in irrigation water supply reliability. The assessment relies on a double-sided discrete choice experiment valuation using latent-class modeling accounting for preference and scale heterogeneity. This valuation approach is empirically implemented using a case study of a Spanish irrigated district significantly impacted
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The emergence and persistence of payments for watershed services programs in Mexico Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Kelly W. Jones, Sergio M. López-Ramirez, Robert H. Manson, V. Sophie Ávila-Foucat
Payments for watershed services (PWS) programs have become a prominent approach to protect or restore ecosystems and watershed services but little is known about where these innovative financing tools and governance systems emerge and persist. In 2008, the Mexican government launched a program where they matched funding from local partners to establish user-financed PWS, leading to the creation of
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Optimizing agricultural cropping patterns under irrigation water use restrictions due to environmental flow requirements and climate change Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Mahdi Sedighkia, Bithin Datta, Saman Razavi
This study proposes a reservoir operation optimization framework to maximize the regional agricultural profit under the constraints of downstream environmental flow requirements and climate change. Three climate change models—CanESM2, MIROC5, and NorESM1-M—and the soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) were used to simulate the reservoir inflow in future periods under uncertainty. Minimum and ideal
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Piloting accounts for recreational ecosystem services: Quality, use, and monetary value of freshwaters in Finland Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Tuija Lankia, Jussi Lintunen, Marjo Neuvonen, Eija Pouta, Ron Store
Ecosystem accounting produces data on ecosystems, their condition, and the services they provide in a consistent and comparable form with the System of National Accounts (SNA). This study focused on accounting of recreational ecosystem services in the context of freshwaters in Finland. We used georeferenced data to measure the extent and condition of ecosystems available for recreation, and representative
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Further evidence on social comparison and residential water use Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Salvador Lurbé, Jesse Burkhardt, Chris Goemans, Dale Manning, Liesel Hans
In this paper, we evaluate a randomized controlled trial in which households were given Home Water Reports (HWRs) that provided recent consumption information aside a social comparison. We estimate an average treatment effect of −2.4%, consistent with previous literature. The effects are significantly larger during months that require irrigation but are still statistically significant during non-irrigation
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Investigating the impacts of drinking water quality on house prices: A household production function approach Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Amarpreet Kaur, John Janmaat
Water provides many important, and some essential, services. The quality of the piped water entering a household impacts the value generated by these services. Household response options include treating the piped water, using water from an alternative source, and selecting a community with different piped water quality. This intersection between location choice and community piped water quality may
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Designing Watersheds for Integrated Development (DWID): Combining hydrological and economic modeling for optimizing land use change to meet water quality regulations Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-12 Ranjit Bawa, Puneet Dwivedi, Nahal Hoghooghi, Latif Kalin, Yu-Kai Huang
By combining information on nutrient output from the Soil & Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) and secondary data on local profits from different crop types, we devise a profit maximization problem subject to dynamic water quality constraints, which become gradually more restrictive over time. The solution aims to detect the optimal allocation of land parcels by crop type that maximizes the total net present
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More risk, more money: When are payments for water savings from limited irrigation profitable for farmers? Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Daniel F. Mooney, Dana L.K. Hoag, Zarif I. Rasul, Siwei Gao
As farmers in semiarid climates seek new ways of adding value to their operations, those with irrigation water rights are increasingly receptive to payments, or credits, for water sharing. Yet, past research on the economic feasibility of limited irrigation strategies for consumptive use (CU) savings seldom considers production risk. Using stochastic dominance, we compare the effect of three limited
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Exploring behavioral responses to a residential water tariff reform Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Sara Suárez-Fernández, María A. García-Valiñas, Roberto Martínez-Espiñeira
Water demand is often found to be relatively price-inelastic, with substantial percentages of water consumption irresponsive to price changes. This does not mean that households are insensitive to price changes or unresponsive to tariff reforms. In order to explore the latter, and using Latent Class Models, we classified households into a series of distinct types according to how they switch between
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Spatial inequality of domestic water consumption in Mexico city Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Carolina Massiel Medina-Rivas, Lilia Rodríguez-Tapia, Jorge Armando Morales-Novelo, Daniel Alfredo Revollo-Fernández
Achieving equal access to drinkable water whilst guaranteeing no discrimination constitutes a priority goal and an acquired compromise for the international agenda. However, achieving this goal has become challenging, especially in megacities. Mexico City registers 94% coverage of water supply, according to the 2020 Population and Housing Census. In 2019, per capita water consumption was 123 l/day
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Nash bargaining in a general equilibrium framework: The case of a shared surface water supply Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Arpita Nehra, Arthur J. Caplan
We extend the axiomatic Nash bargaining approach to the context of interregional water sharing in order to assess the approach’s normative implications in a general equilibrium (GE) framework. The GE model is applied to a water development project proposed for the Wasatch Front and Cache Valley regions of Utah — the Bear River Development Project (BRDP). We demonstrate conceptually how an allocation
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What is the least cost policy mix for nitrogen and phosphorous abatement in a rapidly urbanizing catchment? Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Maksym Polyakov, Benedict White
Nitrogen and phosphorus emissions from urban sources degrade aquatic ecosystems. Reducing these emissions cost-effectively in an urban environment is challenging because they are non-point source pollutants and abatement strategies range from behaviour change for garden fertilizer use to large scale infrastructure investments. This paper analyses policy options for the Canning catchment in Western
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Consumer perception and information in a model of household water usage: The case of jacksonville, FL Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Chiradip Chatterjee, Russell Triplett, Chung-Ping A. Loh, Christopher K. Johnson
Consumption of bottled water in the U.S. continues to grow despite the higher user price and greater environmental cost relative to municipal tap water. Convenience is surely one reason for this trend, but it is less relevant for in-home consumption of bottled water. The existing literature highlights perceptions of quality, access to information and personal experience as important factors influencing
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Dynamic change of inter-regional virtual water transfers in China: Driving factors and economic benefits Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Zhangqi Zhong, Zhuli Chen, Xiaojun Deng
Whether rapid urbanization promote inter-regional virtual water transfers, and whether economic benefits produced by virtual water trade differ across regions, which have become the two significant issues concerned by relevant stakeholders. To this end, on the basis of investigating dynamic change of inter-regional virtual water transfers in Chinese 30 provinces from 2002 to 2015, this paper constructed
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Valuing urban drinking water supply attributes: A case study from Chile Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-28 Cristian González-Santander, Mauricio Sarrias, Ricardo A. Daziano, Lisandro Roco
This article uses a discrete choice experiment carried out in the city of Antofagasta, Chile, to understand consumer's preferences for urban drinking water. To disentangle the perceptions and valuation of drinking water attributes, we propose a willingness-to-pay (WTP)-space model where the WTPs for water attributes are distributed as a mixture-of-normal distribution. This approach combines discrete
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The Environmental Kuznets Curve at the thermoelectricity-water nexus: Empirical evidence from Spain Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Diego Sesma-Martín, Miguel Puente-Ajovín
Energy and water are essential resources for ensuring economic growth. Both sectors are closely interrelated. Electricity generation is one of the most water-intensive activities worldwide and the cooling of thermoelectric power stations represents one of the largest uses of water within the energy sector. This study provides evidence on the existence of an Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) for water
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Market response to the hierarchical water environment regulations on heavily polluting firm: Evidence from China Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Liming Yao, Ying Luo, Yile Wang, Haiyue Liu
Using event study methodology, this paper examined the effects of water environment regulations on the stock prices of polluting Chinese firms over the past decade. It was found that there were relatively weak market responses to regulations passed by the National People's Congress, China's top legislative body, and more significant market responses to regulations implemented by less powerful administrations
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Water tariff setting and its welfare implications: Evidence from Chinese cities Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Yi Jiang, Renz Adrian T. Calub, Xiaoting Zheng
We study urban water tariff setting and its welfare implications with a unique panel of Chinese cities in the 2000s. First, we find that peer cities' water tariff levels have a significant influence on a city's choice of tariffs. Using the peer cities' average tariffs as instrumental variables in estimating water demand functions, we obtain price elasticities around −0.41 for both residential and industrial
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Adaptation of smallholder farmers to climate risks: Remittances and irrigation investment in the Republic of Moldova Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-02 Tereza Pilarova, Alexander Kandakov, Miroslava Bavorova
Drought is one of the main limiting factors affecting crop production in many areas in the world. Pressurized irrigation systems enable more efficient use of water compared to surface irrigation systems but are rarely used by small farmers due to higher initial investment and energy costs. The main question investigated in the study is if remittances affect investment in pressurized irrigation (drip
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21st Century water withdrawal decoupling: A pathway to a more water-wise world? Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Felix Dalstein, Asjad Naqvi
Human demand for adequate water resources and supplies has been and will continue to be a fundamental issue in the 21st century due to rapid population growth, growing economies and globalization, and increasing water pollution, among others. Water withdrawals in regions which are already encountering scarcity will impose intensifying pressure on water resources locally and globally, threatening the
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A global-scale hydropower potential assessment and feasibility evaluations Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Wasu Manawko Tefera, K.S. Kasiviswanathan
Assessing the possible locations and evaluating the spatial distribution of hydropower potentials at the global and regional scale is crucial for planning future energy development activities. This study assesses run–of–river-based hydropower potential and evaluates potential sites under technical, economic, and environmental constraints globally. The study used the recent (1965–2014) global runoff
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The impact of collective and individual drip irrigation systems on fertilizer use intensity and land productivity: Evidence from rural Xinjiang, China Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Changkun Guan, Xianlei Ma, Xiaoping Shi
Drip irrigation is claimed to save water and fertilizers and improve land productivity. Considerable recent evidence supports the water-saving effect of drip irrigation techniques, but little attention has been given to the effect on fertilizer savings and land productivity improvement. This study examines the effects of collective and individual drip irrigation (CDI and IDI, respectively) on fertilizer
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How stable is the stabilization value of groundwater? Examining the behavioral and physical determinants Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Siwa Msangi, Mohamad Hejazi
In this paper we explore the economic value of groundwater in irrigation – both in terms of the way in which it stabilizes water supply for those facing uncertain surface water flows – as well as in the way it augments water supply to farming enterprises beyond what would be available from precipitation or surface water flows alone. These respective components of groundwater's economic value – its
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Promoting global access to water and sanitation: A supply and demand perspective Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-23 Javier Abellán, José Antonio Alonso
Almost 800 million people lack access to basic water supply, and almost 2000 million lack access to sanitation. Therefore, achieving universal access remains a crucial goal of the global development agenda. In order to shed light on whether international aid might help accomplish that goal, this study evaluates its impact in a sample of 121 developing countries during 1990–2015. A new approach is adopted
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Market-based groundwater resources allocation mechanism: An inter-sectoral water exchanges programming analysis Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-10 Mohammad Amin Zolfagharipoor, Azadeh Ahmadi, Alireza Nikouei
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Economic valuation of safe water from new boreholes in rural Zambia: A coping cost approach Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Yasuharu Shimamura, Satoshi Shimizutani, Shimpei Taguchi, Hiroyuki Yamada
Access to safe water sources remains scarce in sub-Saharan African countries. We estimate the economic value of safe water from newly constructed boreholes in rural Zambia. Our quasi-experimental setting allows us to estimate the revealed preference measure of new safe water sources in a causal way, empowered by precise information on water collection and distance to new facilities. We show that the
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Conserving for the common good: Preferences for water conservation policies during a severe drought in Northern California Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-03 Janine M. Stone, Patrick S. Johnson
During the 2011–2017 drought in California, water providers used a variety of demand-side management (DSM) policies to successfully reduce water consumption by over 20%. Unfortunately, because utilities used numerous conservation policies simultaneously, little is known about support for specific policies—specifically, an untested water-budgeting policy wherein utilities gave households an allotment
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Tracking water for human activities: From the ivory tower to the ground Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-10 Maite M. Aldaya, Diego Sesma-Martín, Mar Rubio-Varas
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COVID-19 and handwashing: Implications for water use in Sub-Saharan Africa Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-03 Franklin Amuakwa-Mensah, Rebecca Afua Klege, Philip Kofi Adom, Gunnar Köhlin
Because the main modes of transmission of the COVID-19 virus are respiration and contact, WHO recommends frequent washing of hands with soap under running water for at least 20 s. This article investigates how the level of concern about COVID-19 affects the likelihood of washing hands frequently in sub-Saharan Africa. We discuss the implication of the findings for water-scarce environment. The study
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Participatory value evaluation for the evaluation of flood protection schemes Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Niek Mouter, Paul Koster, Thijs Dekker
Participatory Value Evaluation (PVE) is a new survey method which elicits citizens' preferences over the allocation of public budgets as well as their private income. In a PVE, citizens are asked to choose the best portfolio of projects given a governmental and a private budget constraint. First, this paper aligns PVE with the traditional Kaldor-Hicks welfare economics framework underlying many Cost-Benefit
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Is shoreline armoring a response to marsh migration? Modeling relationships between coastal marshes and private adaptation decisions Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2021-09-21 George Gardner, Robert J. Johnston
The value and vulnerability of salt marshes has led to efforts to ensure their preservation, including the preservation of marsh transgression zones (uplands onto which marshes can migrate) and restrictions on shoreline armoring. Coastal armoring involves the placement of hardened structures such as revetments and bulkheads along the shoreline. These structures can prevent coastal marshes from migrating
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Not your typical rate structure change: Heterogeneous water demand responses Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 B. Stitzel, C.L. Rogers
This paper investigates behavioral responses to a complicated and peculiar change in a municipality's water rate structure. In 2006, the City of Norman, Oklahoma Water Utility added a four-dollar fixed fee, reduced the number of block-rate tiers, and changed the rate structure from one that decreased and then increased across higher consumption block groups, to a strictly increasing rate structure
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The impact of water conservation regulations on mining firms: A stochastic control approach Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-10 Yichun Huang, Margaret Insley
Large water demands by the mining industry are of increasing concern around the world. The cost of a specific water management regulation is studied for an oil sands mining operation in Canada, where restrictions on water withdrawals vary with fluctuations in the river. A stochastic optimal control problem is formulated for a firm choosing production, water use, and the timing to build a water storage
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Spatial analysis of water quality and income in Europe Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2021-07-07 Erik Brockwell, Katarina Elofsson, George Marbuah, Sandra Nordmark
The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) relationship between water quality and income within the European Union, considering spatial interdependences across countries. To this end, we apply a spatial econometrics framework using panel data, at the national level, for twenty EU countries across seventeen years, 1998 to 2014. Furthermore, we account
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Dynamic water pricing and the risk adjusted user cost (RAUC) Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2021-05-29 Long Chu, R. Quentin Grafton
We formalise a dynamic water pricing model as a tool for increasing social surplus in short-term water allocations and long-term water supply planning and investments. We calculate, in monetary terms, the intertemporal risk that current water uses impose on future water availability, termed as the Risk-Adjusted User Cost (RAUC), given multi-period droughts. Our model is calibrated to the water supply
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Household preferences for improved water services in the Galápagos Islands Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2021-03-26 William F. Vásquez, Nejem Raheem, Diego Quiroga, Valeria Ochoa-Herrera
Like many islands worldwide, Santa Cruz, the most populated of Ecuador's Galápagos Islands, has limited resources to provide safe drinking water to an increasing number of inhabitants and tourists. Currently, households receive brackish water at their tap, which is rationed to a few hours per day. Insufficient recovery of water supply costs is an impediment to improving water services. Against this
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The interconnection between water quality level and health status: An analysis of Escherichia Coli contamination and drinking water from Nepal Water Resour. Econ. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2021-03-10 Mohammad Mashiur Rahman, Samrat B. Kunwar, Alok K. Bohara
Health outcomes can be remarkably dependent on the quality of drinking water. This study employs primary survey data collected in May 10 – July 27, 2016 to investigate the effects of water quality, measured by the presence of the Escherichia Coli (E. Coli) bacteria, on the health outcomes of households in Nepal. The health outcomes are based on the self-reported health status as well as the actual