Transferable Groundwater Rights

Author : Andreas N. Charalambous
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136455995

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Transferable Groundwater Rights by Andreas N. Charalambous Pdf

The principle of transferable groundwater rights is that by making water rights capable of being traded in the market, water resources can be used more sustainably and efficiently. Groundwater would achieve its economic value, by switching from the high volume-low value irrigation, which is prevalent with many farmers, particularly in South Asia, to low volume-high value urban supply or the growing of intensive horticultural or cash crops. This book discusses transferable groundwater rights in their broader context. It starts with a detailed description of the physical aspects of groundwater, which non-technical readers should find useful, followed by a discussion of legal and economic aspects. Water transfers and the international experiences in transferable groundwater rights are dealt with in detail in two subsequent chapters. A model is presented to guide those involved in water resources management and planning in their decision process to introduce transferable groundwater rights and water rights trading. The author concludes that transferable groundwater rights potentially offer a better alternative to land-based water rights systems. However, he casts serious doubt on whether groundwater rights trading on its own can achieve water resources sustainability, environmental protection and social equity. Government intervention seems to be almost always needed to assist the water rights market and take responsibility for any of its adverse consequences.

Author : Andreas N. Charalambous
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136456008

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Transferable Groundwater Rights by Andreas N. Charalambous Pdf

The principle of transferable groundwater rights is that by making water rights capable of being traded in the market, water resources can be used more sustainably and efficiently. Groundwater would achieve its economic value, by switching from the high volume-low value irrigation, which is prevalent with many farmers, particularly in South Asia, to low volume-high value urban supply or the growing of intensive horticultural or cash crops. This book discusses transferable groundwater rights in their broader context. It starts with a detailed description of the physical aspects of groundwater, which non-technical readers should find useful, followed by a discussion of legal and economic aspects. Water transfers and the international experiences in transferable groundwater rights are dealt with in detail in two subsequent chapters. A model is presented to guide those involved in water resources management and planning in their decision process to introduce transferable groundwater rights and water rights trading. The author concludes that transferable groundwater rights potentially offer a better alternative to land-based water rights systems. However, he casts serious doubt on whether groundwater rights trading on its own can achieve water resources sustainability, environmental protection and social equity. Government intervention seems to be almost always needed to assist the water rights market and take responsibility for any of its adverse consequences.

Author : Charles A. Job
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780429552809

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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Groundwater Policy and Projects, with Case Studies by Charles A. Job Pdf

The competition for groundwater sources as a water supply reinforces the need for a strong economic rationale in decision-making. Evaluating economic decisions in the context of total water management and life-cycle water use is essential to making critical development and remediation choices. This revised volume provides fundamental economic and policy concepts related to groundwater, discusses important factors in life-cycle cost-benefit evaluation and explains triple-bottom-line analysis for different groundwater projects. It includes new and updated case studies on groundwater issues with solutions for a range of situations based on economic data. FEATURES OF THIS VOLUME Provides an understanding for the fundamental economic approaches to groundwater policy and project evaluation Incorporates life-cycle cost-benefit approaches in a triple-bottom-line framework Includes new case studies on the economics of health protection, managed aquifer recharge, local versus regional supply and strategic life-cycle analysis Addresses local and regional groundwater economic choices through a series of practical applications Explores transboundary, international, climate change and macroeconomic factors influencing groundwater project and program decisions Cost-Benefit Analysis of Groundwater Policy and Projects, with Case Studies, Second Edition, the second volume of the two-volume set Groundwater Economics, is a must-have for any professional or student who needs to understand and evaluate water resources and manage their use from a variety of sustainable approaches.

Author : Stephen Hodgson,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 9251056242

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Modern Water Rights by Stephen Hodgson,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

The vital importance of water to human activity is such that most societies and cultures have sought to establish legal rules over its use and allocation. In most jurisdictions legal rights to water have been linked to land tenure and ownership rights. A number of countries have recently undertaken substantive water law reforms, usually involving the introduction of formal and explicit water rights that clearly specify the volume of water that is subject to each right ("modern water rights"), together with institutional arrangements for their allocation, registration, monitoring and enforcement. Modern water rights are not intrinsically tied to specific land plots, are often transferable and available to be traded on a temporary or permament basis. This book reviews international experiences of the introduction and use of modern water rights. It is based on a survey of relevant primary and secondary legislation, published literature, internet sources and practical experience.

Author : Bonnie G. Colby,Katharine L. Jacobs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136525438

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Arizona Water Policy by Bonnie G. Colby,Katharine L. Jacobs Pdf

The central challenge for Arizona and many other arid regions in the world is keeping a sustainable water supply in the face of rapid population growth and other competing demands. This book highlights new approaches that Arizona has pioneered for managing its water needs. The state has burgeoning urban areas, large agricultural regions, water dependent habitats for endangered fish and wildlife, and a growing demand for water-based recreation. A multi-year drought and climate-related variability in water supply complicate the intense competition for water. Written by well-known Arizona water experts, the essays in this book address these issues from academic, professional, and policy perspectives that include economics, climatology, law, and engineering. Among the innovations explored in the book is Arizona‘s Groundwater Management Act. Arizona is not alone in its challenges. As one of the seven states in the Colorado River Basin that depend heavily on the river, Arizona must cooperate, and sometimes compete, with other state, tribal, and federal governments. One institution that furthers regional cooperation is the water bank, which encourages groundwater recharge of surplus surface water during wet years so that the water remains available during dry years. The Groundwater Management Act imposes conservation requirements and establishes planning and investment programs in renewable water supplies. The essays in Arizona Water Policy are accessible to a broad policy-oriented and nonacademic readership. The book explores Arizona‘s water management and extracts lessons that are important for arid and semi-arid areas worldwide.

Author : National Research Council,Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources,Ocean Studies Board,Committee to Review Individual Fishing Quotas
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309173476

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Sharing the Fish by National Research Council,Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources,Ocean Studies Board,Committee to Review Individual Fishing Quotas Pdf

Most U.S. fish stocks are fully or over-exploited, and harvesting in many fisheries far exceeds sustainable levels. The individual fishing quota (IFQ) is a relatively new instrument under which harvesting privileges are allocated to individual fishermenâ€"innovative yet controversial for its feared effect on fishing communities and individual fishermen. Based on testimony from fishermen, regulators, environmentalists, and others, Sharing the Fish explores how IFQs might address the serious social, economic, and biologic issues raised by depleted fish stocks. In their approach to a national policy on IFQs, the panel makes direct recommendations to Congress, the Secretary of Commerce, the National Marine Fisheries Service, regional fishery management councils, state authorities, and others. This book provides definitions and examples, reviews legislation and regulations, and includes lessons learned from fisheries on the U.S. East Coast and in Alaska, and in Iceland, New Zealand, and other nations. The committee discusses the public trust doctrine, management of common-pool resources, alternative and complementary approaches to the IFQ, and more. Sharing the Fish provides straightforward answers that will be important to fishery policymakers and regulators, natural resource economists, fishery managers, environmental advocates, and concerned fishermen and their communities.

Author : Ronald C. Griffin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262334037

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Water Resource Economics, second edition by Ronald C. Griffin Pdf

Updated edition of a comprehensive introduction to the economics of water management, with self-contained treatment of all necessary economic concepts. Economics brings powerful insights to water management, but most water professionals receive limited training in it. The second edition of this text offers a comprehensive development of water resource economics that is accessible to engineers and natural scientists as well as to economists. The goal is to build a practical platform for understanding and performing economic analysis using both theoretical and empirical tools. Familiarity with microeconomics or natural resource economics is helpful, but all the economics needed is presented and developed progressively in the text. The book focuses on the scarcity of water quantity (rather than on water quality). The author presents the economic theory of resource allocation, recognizing the peculiarities imposed by water, and then goes on to treat a range of subjects including conservation, groundwater depletion, water law, policy analysis, cost–benefit analysis, water marketing, privatization, and demand and supply estimation. Added features of this updated edition include a new chapter on water scarcity risk (with climate change and necessary risk tools introduced progressively) and new risk-attentive material elsewhere in the text; sharper treatment of block rates and pricing doctrine; expanded attention to contemporary literature and issues; and new appendixes on input–output analysis, water footprinting and virtual water, and cost allocation. Each chapter ends with a summary and exercises.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 082134465X

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Inter-sectoral Water Allocation, Planning, and Management by Anonim Pdf

Fundamental changes must take place in how water is allocated, planned, and managed if India's goals for continued economic growth and improved social and environmental conditions are to be met. India's needs are especially severe due to its rapidly developing water constraints, environmental problems, huge population, regional inequalities in water availability along with the federal administrative structure and rapid demographic and economic growth. The findings of 'Inter-Sectoral Water Allocation, Planning and Management' are that a comprehensive approach is needed in order to implement change. The book provides detailed recommendations in the areas of policy making, legislation and regulations, institutions, economic incentives, technology, and public information.

Author : K. William Easter,M.W. Rosegrant,Ariel Dinar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780585320885

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Markets for Water by K. William Easter,M.W. Rosegrant,Ariel Dinar Pdf

Markets for Water: Potential and Performance dispels many of the myths surrounding water markets and gives readers a comprehensive picture of the way that markets have developed in different parts of the world. It is possible, for example, for a water market to fail, and for the transaction costs in water markets to be excessive. Too often water trading is banned because the water resources have been developed with public funds and the water agencies do not want to lose control over water. There is also a concern that poor farmers or households will be disadvantaged by water trading. These concerns about public resources and the poor are not very different from those that have been voiced in the past about land sales. The problem is that in many cases the poor already have limited access to resources, but this limit is not due to water trading. In fact, water trading is likely to expand the access to water for many small-scale farmers. Markets for Water: Potential and Performance provides an analytical framework for water market establishment. It develops the necessary conditions for water markets and illustrates how they can improve both water management and economic efficiency. Finally, the book gives readers an up-to-date picture of what we have learned about water markets in a wide range of countries, from the US to Chile and India.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0821344609

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Initiating and Sustaining Water Sector Reforms by Anonim Pdf

Water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource in India. India faces an increasingly urgent situation with its finite and fragile water resources being stressed and depleted while various sectoral demands are growing rapidly. 'Initiating and Sustaining Water Sector Reforms' offers detailed solutions to this complex and important concern.

Author : Clifford T. Lee,Governor's Commission to Review California Water Rights Law
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Riparian rights
ISBN : STANFORD:36105130669232

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The Transfer of Water Rights in California by Clifford T. Lee,Governor's Commission to Review California Water Rights Law Pdf

Author : Rosegrant, Mark W.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896296275

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Water Resources in the Twenty-First Century by Rosegrant, Mark W. Pdf

In this paper, Mark W. Rosegrant assesses global water supply and demand, describes in detail the forces contributing to water scarcity, and lays out a number of strategies for managing water in the future. Any solution, Rosegrant asserts, will need to involve both the careful exploitation of new sources of water and strong measures to stimulate more efficient use of water. Policies must treat water not as a free good, as they often do now, but rather as a scarce commodity that comes at a price. Cooperation between countries sharing the same water basin will also become increasingly important as water becomes more scarce.

Author : Terry L. Anderson,Brandon Scarborough,Lawrence R. Watson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781136486067

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Tapping Water Markets by Terry L. Anderson,Brandon Scarborough,Lawrence R. Watson Pdf

Tapping Water Markets is about the past, present, and future of water markets. It compares water markets with political water allocation, documents the growth of water markets, and explores the ways in which water markets can be improved and implemented further. This book provides up-to-date information of where and why water shortages are occurring and where and why water markets are evolving to resolve conflicting water uses. Though the main focus is on the United States, it includes examples from other parts of the world to show how water markets are beginning to thrive. It contains institutional detail that is accessible to people who are not economic or hydrologic experts, and comes alive with numerous examples and case studies of water markets. The book begins with an analysis of water institutions as they have varied over time and location. It then covers a range of discrete water management topics including surface water allocation, groundwater management, environmental flows, and water quality trading. The book concludes with predictions about the future of water scarcity and the ability of water markets to shape that future more positively.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Water resources development
ISBN : UCR:31210018951259

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The Water Transfer Process as a Management Option for Meeting Changing Water Demands by Anonim Pdf

Author : David E. Kromm,Stephen E. White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015028464660

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Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains by David E. Kromm,Stephen E. White Pdf

In the forty years since the invention of center pivot irrigation, the Nigh Plains aquifer system has been depleted at an astonishing rate. Is the region now in danger of becoming the Great American Desert? In this volume eleven of the most knowledgeable scholars and water professionals in the Great Plains insightfully examine the dilemmas of groundwater use. They address both the technical problems and the politics of water management, providing a badly needed analysis of the implications of large-scale irrigation.