Progress 10/01/09 to 09/30/14
Outputs
Target Audience: Target audience includes irrigators, environmentalists (primarily river/fish proponents), legislators, Washington State agency personnel, and academics. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? Over the course of this project, at least five doctoral student research assistants were funded (two in the fields of Economics). One post-doctoral fellow was supported for a year. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? The primary non-journal publication submitted to the WA Department of Ecology was submitted and distributed widely primarily by the Department of Ecology through its website to water stakeholders throughout the state of Washington. In addition, stakeholder workgroup meetings were a component of the research itself, but serves as bi-directional information and learning interaction. In addition, several journal articles, as reported, were disseminated through standard journal outlets. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Over the duration of this project several products contributed to contributing to all of the goals of the project. The Reporting requirements to the Washington State Department of Ecology were satisfied, and we are now under contract with the same agency for legislatively mandated follow-ups to the report. Various other publications contributed to the goals of these research as submitted in this and previous reporting periods.
Publications
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2014
Citation:
Adam, J. et al. 2014. BioEarth: Envisioning and developing a new regional earth system model to inform natural and agricultural resource management. Climate Change, April pp. 1-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-014-1115-2
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Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2014
Citation:
Ohler, Adrienne, Hayley Chouinard, and Jonathan Yoder. 2014. Interest group incentives for post-lottery trade restrictions. Journal of Regulatory Economics 45(3):281-304.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2014
Citation:
Yoder et al. 2014. Yakima Basin Integrated Plan Benefit Cost analysis update. Presented to the Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project Workgroup. Yakima, WA. 4 June.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2014
Citation:
Li, T., M. Brady, and J. Yoder. 2014. Renegotiating the Columbia River Treaty: A Game-theoretic Analysis. Presented at the UCOWR Annual meetings, June 18-20. Boston.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2014
Citation:
Yoder, J., A. Ohler, H. Chouinard. 2014. What floats your boat? Preference revelation from lotteries over complex goods. J. of Environmental Ecomomics and Management 67:412-430 doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2014.03.001
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Progress 01/01/13 to 09/30/13
Outputs
Target Audience: Academic community, policymakers, stakeholders Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? PhD students and a Post-doc are participating in the research. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? presentations What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? I am project leader on a legislatively mandated benefit/cost analysis of the Yakima Basin Integrated Water Management Plan. This is a major undertaking involving several faculty members at WSU, UW, and U Idaho, PhD students, and a post-doc.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Journal publication submission, presentations.
Publications
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2013
Citation:
Benefit-Cost Analyses of the Yakima River Basin Integrated Plan Projects: Plan of work. 2013. Presented to the Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project Workgroup. Yakima, WA. 18 December
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2013
Citation:
Yoder, Jonathan, Adrienne Ohler, and Hayley Chouinard. 2013. ''What floats your boat? Preference revelation from lotteries over complex goods''. Presented at the W3133 Regional project Meetings, Coeur d'Alene, ID. March 1.
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Journal Articles
Status:
Under Review
Year Published:
2014
Citation:
Yoder, Jonathan, Adrienne Ohler, & Hayley Chouinard. ``What floats your boat? Preference revelation from lotteries over complex goods.'' In review.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Under Review
Year Published:
2014
Citation:
Ohler, Adrienne M., Hayley H. Chouinard, & Jonathan Yoder. ``Interest group incentives for post-lottery trade restrictions.'' In review.
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2013
Citation:
Brady, Michael & Jonathan Yoder. 2013. Understanding the Relationship between Water Price, Value, and Cost. Washington State University Extension Fact Sheet FS110E. http://www.tfrec.wsu.edu/pdfs/P2658.pdf.
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Progress 01/01/12 to 12/31/12
Outputs
OUTPUTS: Research results were presented to audiences at the following conferences: Washington State University and the Washington State Department of Ecology. January 2012. Columbia River Basin 2011 Long Term Water Supply and Demand Forecast. Legislative Report. http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wr/cwp/forecast/forecast.html. The report to the legislature has been widely distributed across the state. M.E. Barber, J.C. Adam, M. Brady, K. Chinnayakanahalli, S. Dinesh, C. Kruger, T. Peters, K. Rajagopalan, C. Stockle, J. Yoder, and G. Yorgey, "Climate Change Impacts on 2030 Water Supply and Demand in the Columbia River Basin," 3rd Annual Pacific Northwest Climate Science Conference, Boise, ID. October 2012. Yoder, Jonathan. 2012. Water rights, markets, and prices: helping water flow toward high-valued use. Invited presentation, 5th Annual Meeting and Symposium, Washington State Academy of Sciences, September 20. Seattle, WA.
The presentation focused on water rights and water law in Washington State and the Western US and was intended to educate Washington State Academy of Science members about the legal and economic underpinnings of water management in Washington, and illustrate some of the new developments in water law and water markets in the State and the Western US. Yoder, Jonathan, Adrienne Ohler, & Hayley Chouinard. 2012. What floats your boat Preference revelation from lotteries over complex goods. Invited seminar, Department of Economics, University of Nevada, Reno. April 20.
The seminar was for a working paper focusing on the information content of lotteries for natural resources such as Wild and Scenic River corridor usage, which relates to water-based recreation in Washington State and the western US generally. PARTICIPANTS: Jon Yoder, Hayley Chouinard. WSU Collaborators M.E. Barber, J.C. Adam, M. Brady, S. Dinesh, C. Kruger, G. Yorgey, C. Stockle. Other Collaboratos A Ohler, K. Chinnayakanahalli, T. Peters, K. Rajagopalan TARGET AUDIENCES: Academic community in the physical sciences and economics, policymakers, other stakeholders PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.
Impacts
The basic outcome of the water forecast is that due to forecasted warming in the region over the next 30 years, precipitation may increase in much of Washington, but a lower percentage will be in the form of snow, and a higher percentage in the form of rain. Spring snowmelt will tend to be earlier. Impact on water user and legislative decision-making is not yet clear.
Publications
- Washington State University and the Washington State Department of Ecology. January 2012. Columbia River Basin 2011 Long Term Water Supply and Demand Forecast. Legislative Report. http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wr/cwp/forecast/forecast.html.
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Progress 01/01/11 to 12/31/11
Outputs
OUTPUTS: Yoder is involved in several ongoing large scale water projects. Among them is the Regional Earth System Modeling Project ``BioEarth" [http://www.cereo.wsu.edu/bioearth/ ], which focuses heavily on water and nutrient cycles in the Pacific Northwest, led by Jennifer Adam of the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington State University. Yoder is also involved in a contract between Washington State University and the Washington State Department of Ecology "Columbia River Basin Water Supply Investment Plan: A strategy to develop water supply to meet water demand needs through 2030." The first project is in preliminary stages; the report for the second is under development. Outputs this year: Presentation. "Poorly defined water rights: How bad is it really? An analysis of water rights, permits, and claims in Washington." Michael Brady & Jonathan Yoder. 2011. Western Agricultural Economics Association Meetings. Banff, Canada. June. Presentation: "Assessing the impact of climate change on Columbia River Basin agriculture through integrated crop systems, hydrologic, and water management modeling". Rajagopalan K., K.J.Chinnayakanahalli, J.C.Adam, M.E.Barber, G.G.Yorgey, C.O.Stockle, R.L.Nelson, M.P.Brady, S.Dinesh, K.Malek, C.E.Kruger, J.Yoder, T.L.Marsh. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. "Incorporating agricultural management into an earth system model for the Pacific Northwest region: Interactions between climate, hydrology, agriculture, and economics". Chinnayakanahalli K.J., J.C.Adam, C.O.Stockle, R.L.Nelson, M.P.Brady, K.Rajagopalan, M.E.Barber, S.Dinesh, K.Malek, G.G.Yorgey, C.E.Kruger, T.L.Marsh, J.Yoder. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. "Forecasting water supply and demand in the Columbia River Basin". Yorgey G.G., C.E.Kruger, J.C.Adam, K.J.Chinnayakanahalli, K.Rajagopalan, M.E.Barber, M.P.Brady, R.L.Nelson, C.O.Stockle, S.Dinesh, K.Malek, J.Yoder, T.L.Marsh. Washington State Horticultural Association Annual Meeting. PARTICIPANTS: Washington State University:
Jennifer Adam, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Michael Brady, School of Economic Sciences
Serena Chung, Lab for Atmospheric Research
R. Dave Evans, School of Biological Sciences
Alex Guenther, National Center for Atmospheric Research John Harrison, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Ananth Kalyanaraman, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Chad Kruger, Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources
Brian Lamb, Lab for Atmospheric Research
Fok-Yan Leung, Lab for Atmospheric Research
Andy Perleberg, Department of Natural Resource Sciences and Extension
Claudio Stockle, Department of Biological Systems Engineering
Joseph Vaughan, Lab for Atmospheric Research
Jonathan Yoder, School of Economic Sciences Oregon State University:
Yong Chen, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory:
L. Ruby Leung Clark University:
Jennie Stephens, Environmental Science and Policy Program University of California, Santa Barbara:
Christina Tague, Bren School
TARGET AUDIENCES: Academic community in the physical sciences and economics, policymakers, other stakeholders. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Projects are ongoing.
Impacts
None reported.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 01/01/10 to 12/31/10
Outputs
OUTPUTS: Currently working on a water project in conjunction with Washington State Department of Ecology to estimate agricultural water demand across the state. The project is in progress, and no outputs have been completed at this stage. PARTICIPANTS: In the School of Economic Sciences: Jonathan Yoder, Thomas Marsh and Michael Brady. Approximately 10 other participants at WSU and the Department of Ecology. TARGET AUDIENCES: Water users and state agency personnel. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Ongoing.
Impacts
No outcomes/impacts to report.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 01/01/09 to 12/31/09
Outputs
OUTPUTS: The core of this project is a water demand analysis that we started in conjunction with the Washington Department of Ecology just this year. We therefore do not have any outputs to report. PARTICIPANTS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. TARGET AUDIENCES: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.
Impacts
Please see outputs
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 01/01/08 to 12/31/08
Outputs
OUTPUTS: We do not have any outputs directly related to this multistate project this year. PARTICIPANTS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. TARGET AUDIENCES: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.
Impacts
No outcomes/impacts to report
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 01/01/07 to 12/31/07
Outputs
OUTPUTS: Project PIs made progress along two lines: (1) Resolving Conflict in U.S. Irrigation. This work investigates the roots of water conflict (e.g., incompletely specified property rights in water, historical exclusion of nondiversionary water uses, federal-state conflicts, federal constitutional concerns, and interstate water conflicts), and evaluates conflict resolution mechanisms (e.g., modification of prior appropriation water law, water markets, and non-market (legal) mechanisms including litigation and arbitration). (2) The Conservation Potential of Agricultural Water Conservation Studies. A current policy subsidizes farmers to invest in improved on-farm irrigation efficiency expecting water to be conserved off-farm. Contrary to expectation, water has been increasingly depleted in some regions after such improvements. This work investigates the policy's failure to conserve water consistently by: formulating an economic model of irrigated crop production to determine a
profit-maximizing irrigator's range of responses to a subsidy; and embedding these responses into hypothetical streamflow diagrams to ascertain their potential to conserve water under various hydrologic regimes. The work develops testable hypotheses to predict the conservation potential of a subsidy in real-world application.
TARGET AUDIENCES: Policy makers, academicians
Impacts
We hope that the work helps policy makers understand the economic and hydrologic implications of managing agricultural water use and reservoir sediments. Since much of the work is in progress or in press, it hasn't had full opportunity to accomplish this.
Publications
- Huffaker, R.G., and J.Hamilton. 2007. Conflict in U.S. Irrigation. Irrigation of Agricultural Crops. Ed. R. Lascan and R. Sojka. . American Society of Agronomy, with others. 3-22.
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Progress 01/01/06 to 12/31/06
Outputs
Dams are the key means of storing water to be allocated among competing economic sectors. Dams have been designed traditionally as nonrenewable resources whose productive lives are cut short because rivers refilling reservoirs transport sediments that choke off reservoir storage capacity. The large environmental and economic costs of restoring storage capacity by constructing new dam/reservoir projects is prompting a shift in paradigm toward managing existing projects as renewable resources. This requires sediment control strategies that stabilize reservoir storage capacity by balancing sediment inflow and removal rates. Our project analyzes the economic dynamics of reservoir sedimentation management using the hydrosuction-dredging sediment-removal system, an emerging removal strategy engineered to be environmentally friendly. In the course of formulating optimal decision rules, we derive a 'critical-minimum threshold' measure of a reservoir's remaining storage
capacity. The threshold indicates whether the manager optimally manages the reservoir as a renewable or a nonrenewable resource. When storage capacity exceeds this threshold, a sustained sediment removal policy is optimal for an infinite decision horizon. Alternatively, when storage capacity is below this threshold, the optimal policy is to abandon the reservoir and allow it to eventually fill with sediment.
Impacts
We hope that the work helps policy makers understand the economic implications of managing reservoir sediment using the hydrosuction method.
Publications
- Huffaker, R.G., and R.Hotchkiss. 2006. Economic Dynamics of Reservoir Sedimentation Management: Optimal Control with Singularly Perturbed Equations of Motion. Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control. 30(12):2553-2575.
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Progress 01/01/05 to 12/31/05
Outputs
The project continues to study the linkages between on-farm irrigation effectiveness and water conservation, and water allocation institutions in the Western United States. Results show that increased on-farm irrigation effectiveness can increase consumptive water use in return-flow river systems. Moreover, current water allocation institutions do not protect other irrigators or ecological instream-flow uses from the negative impacts of increased consumptive use. Particular examples include the EQIP program (2002 Farm Bill), the Water 2025 (U.S. Dept of the Interior), and the Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project.
Impacts
This research has educated law-makers, public water managers, public interest groups, and scholars on the drawbacks of relying on policies encouraging farmers to increase on-farm irrigation effectiveness to conserve agricultural water.
Publications
- Huffaker, R. "Finding a Modern Role for the Prior Appropriation Doctrine in the American West," in "Water Resources Management-Structure, Evolution, and Performance of Water Institutions," Editors: C. Gopalakrishnan, C. Tortajada, A. Biswas, Springer Verlag, New York, 187-198 (2005).
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Progress 01/01/04 to 12/31/04
Outputs
The project has focused on studying the linkages between on-farm irrigation effectiveness and water conservation, and water allocation institutions in the Western United States. Results show that increased on-farm irrigation effectiveness can increase consumptive water use in return-flow river systems. Moreover, current water allocation institutions do not protect other irrigators or ecological instream-flow uses from the negative impacts of increased consumptive use.
Impacts
This research has educated law makers, public water managers, public interest groups, and scholars on the drawbacks of relying on policies encouraging farmers to increase on-farm irrigation effectiveness to conserve agricultural water.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 01/01/03 to 12/31/03
Outputs
The project has focused on studying the linkages between on-farm irrigation effectiveness and water conservation, water allocation institutions in the western United States, and reservoir sedimentation management and law. Results show that increased on-farm irrigation effectiveness can increase consumptive water use in return-flow river systems. Moreover, current water allocation institutions do not protect other irrigators or ecological instream-flow uses from the negative impacts of increased consumptive use.
Impacts
The research sponsored by this project has had a major impact in educating law-makers, public water managers, and students on the effectiveness of policies encouraging farmers to increase on-farm irrigation effectiveness as a means of conserving agricultural water. This education has affected the formation of agricultural water conservation law in Washington state.
Publications
- Huffaker, R. 2003. Alternative Water Institutional Structures to Mitigate Producer Impacts Due to Drought and/or Federal Decisions Restricting Water for Irrigation. USDA Cooperative Agreement No. 43-3AEL-2-80094.
- Huffaker, R., Whittlesey, N., and Hamilton, J. 2003. Endangered species policy and irrigated agriculture. Encyclopedia of Water Science (Marcel Dekker, Inc.).
- Huffaker, R.G. and Whittlesey, N. 2003. An analysis of economic incentive policies to encourage agricultural water conservation. International Journal of Water Resources Development March(2003):37-53.
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Progress 01/01/02 to 12/31/02
Outputs
(1) Agricultural Water Conservation Policy: A conceptual model of a representative farm was formulated to study farm responses to two economic policies commonly suggested to encourage agricultural water conservation, and to characterize the hydrological and economic circumstances in which these responses provide the desired conservation. Comparative statics results demonstrate that increasing the cost of applied water may be a more effectual water conservation policy than subsidizing the cost of improved on-farm irrigation efficiency. (2) The interface between irrigated agriculture and the environment. Research established the legal parameters governing policy tradeoffs in allocating water between irrigated agriculture and endangered species protection. Other research identified and evaluated the potential effectiveness of various water institutions in mitigating the costs to agricultural producers of federal actions restricting the supply of irrigation water.
Contingent water leasing markets were found to perform the best in reallocating water from agriculture to environmental uses while compensating farmers losing irrigation water and protecting the economic stability of rural communities.
Impacts
Policy-makers in the Washington state legislature, governor's office, and Department of Ecology have relied on agricultural-water-conservation research results to legislate in this key area. The USDA/ERS is including research results on mitigating farmer impacts of endangered species policy in a key policy report to the U.S. Risk Management Agency.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 01/01/01 to 12/31/01
Outputs
Research focused on Objective 3 (institutionally related topics) in regional project W-190. Topics studied include the relationship between on-farm irrigation efficiency and agricultural water conservation; making the prior appropriation doctrine more flexible for reallocating water among several different socially-desired uses; states vs. federal water rights conflicts; constitutional water issues; and the interface between irrigated agriculture and endangered species protection. This research was extended to the public through journal publications, invited presentations, and media interviews.
Impacts
The impact of this work has been to educate policy makers at several levels (specifically, the water section of the World Bank, Kansas state water officials, ERS/USDA) on a number of water related topics, and, in this way, to help them make good public decisions regarding water use.
Publications
- Huffaker, R., A. Michelsen, J. Hamilton, M. Frasier. "The Uneasy Hierarchy of Federal and State Water Laws and Policies." Water Resources Update 118(January 2001):3-10.
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Progress 01/01/00 to 12/31/00
Outputs
This project resulted in published research evaluating alternative laws, institutions and mechanisms to promote the efficient allocation of water. The research demonstrated how widespread technological changes in irrigated agriculture have weakened the security of traditional appropriative water rights, and have decreased the flexibility of the prior appropriation system to reallocate water to emerging public needs.
Impacts
The impact of this project was education of public policy-makers looking to change state water law to protect traditional rights and provide more water for new uses.
Publications
- Gopalakrishnan, C., R. Huffaker. Guest Editorial: Water and Agriculture in the American West. International Journal of Water Resource Development (June 2000):173-176.
- Huffaker, R., M. Frasier, J. Hamilton. The Intrastate-Trade-Restriction' Defense in Commerce-clause Challenges of State-imposed Restrictions on Water Exports to Neighboring States. International Journal of Water Resources Development (June 2000):275-279.
- Huffaker, R., N. Whittlesey, J. Hamilton. The Role of Prior Appropriation in Allocating Water Resources in the 21st Century. International Journal of Water Resources Development (June 2000): 265-275.
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Progress 10/01/99 to 12/31/99
Outputs
This project resulted in several papers and presentations evaluating alternative laws, institutions and mechanisms to promote agricultural water conservation. Specific mechanisms studied were block rate pricing schedules for irrigation deliveries, and increased on-farm irrigation efficiency. Research results show that, under general circumstances, the relationship between increasing the price of delivered water and agricultural water conservation is theoretically ambiguous and must be determined empirically. These results cast a shadow over the attempts of many western states to generate water savings using a pricing mechanism.
Impacts
(N/A)
Publications
- Frasier, M., A. Michelsen, R. Huffaker, and R. Taylor. 1999. "Economic and Institutional Alternatives for Meeting Interstate ESA Instream Flow Requirements in the Platte River Basin." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 81(5).
- Michelsen, A., R. G. Taylor, R. G. Huffaker and T. McGuckin. 1999. "Emerging Price Conservation Programs in Agricultural Water Use." Journal of Agriculture and Resource Economics 24(1):222-238.
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Progress 01/01/98 to 12/31/98
Outputs
Charging farmers increasing block prices for irrigation deliveries is advocated as a means of encouraging agricultural water conservation in the West. A model of a hypothetical irrigated river basin was formulated to investigate the hydro-economic circumstances in which such pricing leads to water conservation. The results indicate that increasing delivery prices may encourage irrigators to make adjustments with countervailing impacts on consumptive water use and conservation. Whether these countervailing impacts combine to conserve water or increase its consumptive use must be resolved empirically. An alternative resolution of this ambiguity is to assess water prices in terms of consumptive use.
Impacts
(N/A)
Publications
- Huffaker, R., N. Whittlesey, A. Michelsen, R. Taylor, and T. McGuckin. 1998. Evaluating the effectiveness of conservation water-pricing programs. J. of Agri. and Resource Econ. 23:12-19.
- Huffaker, R., N. Whittlesey, A. Michelsen, R. Taylor, and T. McGuckin. 1998. Evaluating the effectiveness of conservation water-pricing programs. Reply. J. of Agri. and Resource Econ. 23:571-72.
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Progress 01/01/97 to 12/31/97
Outputs
Agricultural water conservation statutes are emerging in the West that encourage private irrigators to improve on-farm irrigation efficiency as a basin-wide conservation measure. A hydro-economic model is being developed to investigate whether such private improvements promote the economic efficiency and conservation of water use basin wide under a wide variety of hydrologic and economic circumstances. Preliminary results indicate that the popular Oregon legislative model may be the least effective in conserving water and promoting economically efficient water use.
Impacts
(N/A)
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 01/01/96 to 12/30/96
Outputs
Several states in the West may adopt agricultural-water conservation laws to simultaneously firm-up irrigation water rights on overappropriated rivers, and to increase instream flows for fish and wildlife. Many believe that improvements in on-farm irrigation technology reduce the diversions necessary to meet the consumptive water needs of crops, thereby increasing the water left instream or in storage. However, our work demonstrates how subsequent surface or subterranean irrigation return flows to the river (which are essential components of hydrologic systems in the West) will decrease in an offsetting amount, leaving basin outflows unchanged. In other words, water is not saved, but is only redistributed within the hydrologic system. The water supply is depleted when the falsely-saved water is used to increase irrigation in the basin, either by water spreading or by firming-up water rights on an overappropriated river. Agricultural water conservation laws permitting
such overuse accomplish the exact opposite of their purpose. The remedy is to define agricultural-water conservation using proper accounting procedures. Under general hydrologic conditions in the West, true on-farm water conservation occurs only when crops consume less water. Thus, water conservation generally should be assessed in terms of consumptive use quantities, and not original diversion quantities.
Impacts
(N/A)
Publications
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Progress 01/01/95 to 12/30/95
Outputs
Research on this project has emphasized policy issues of water allocation in thePNW. Efforts continue to investigate water markets as a potential for reallocating water from agriculture to instream uses in the Snake River basin. This work is looking at agriculture in the upper basin to supply water for salmon recovery in the lower basin. Tentative findings indicate that large additional quantities of water could be obtained to augment streamflows during drought periods but not without significant impacts on agriculture in Southern Idaho and Eastern Oregon. Other work has been focused on the definition and role of water conservation in irrigated agriculture in providing additional water to instream uses. Results of this research show that defining conservation in terms of irrigation efficiency (change in diversion quantity) can result in detrimental effects on stream flows if agriculture is allowed to claim a portion of the "saved" water for use on expanded acreage.
Impacts
(N/A)
Publications
- WHITTLESEY, N.K., BUTCHER, W.R., and MARTS, M.E. 1995. Water project subsidies: how they develop and grow. Illahee, 11(1&2):63-72, Inst. for Environ. Studies, U. WA, Seattle.
- HUFFAKER, R.G., and WHITTLESEY, N.K. 1995. Agricultural Conservation Legislation: will it save water Choices, 4th quarter.
- HUFFAKER, R.G. 1995. Encouraging water marketing within the prior appropriation system. Illahee, 11: 87-93, Inst. for Environ. Studies, U. WA, Seattle.
- WHITTLESEY, N.K. 1994. Review, Land economics and sustainable development: economic policies and the common good, by G.C. Van Kooten. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, Illahee 10(1): 78-79.
- WHITTLESEY, N.K. 1994. Concepts and issues concerning sustainable resource management in New Zealand: an economist's perspective. Report to Landcare Research, NW, LTD, 71 pp.
- WHITTLESEY, N.K. 1995. Water conservation morass. Big River News.
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