Emerging Agricultural Water Conservation Price Incentives
Recent Bureau of Reclamation policies encourage or require irrigation districts to adopt price conservation incentives. Using unpublished survey results and new district-level information, we examine the rate structures and incentives of district water pricing. Our findings reveal that the majority...
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Western Agricultural Economics Association
1999-07-01
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| author | Ari M. Michelsen R. Garth Taylor Ray G. Huffaker J. Thomas McGuckin |
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| description | Recent Bureau of Reclamation policies encourage or require irrigation districts to adopt price conservation incentives. Using unpublished survey results and new district-level information, we examine the rate structures and incentives of district water pricing. Our findings reveal that the majority of districts use fixed charges independent of the quantity of water delivered and that most conservation rate structures recently implemented are designed so that the first tier quantity allocation satisfies most crop water needs. Although other district management objectives may be satisfied, price incentives are diminished or nonexistent. The question of whether conservation is being achieved is tautological and depends on how each district defines conservation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-db433fee60a943309c54a3c350c355182022-12-21T20:33:14ZengWestern Agricultural Economics AssociationJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics1068-55022327-82851999-07-0124122223810.22004/ag.econ.3087130871Emerging Agricultural Water Conservation Price IncentivesAri M. MichelsenR. Garth TaylorRay G. HuffakerJ. Thomas McGuckinRecent Bureau of Reclamation policies encourage or require irrigation districts to adopt price conservation incentives. Using unpublished survey results and new district-level information, we examine the rate structures and incentives of district water pricing. Our findings reveal that the majority of districts use fixed charges independent of the quantity of water delivered and that most conservation rate structures recently implemented are designed so that the first tier quantity allocation satisfies most crop water needs. Although other district management objectives may be satisfied, price incentives are diminished or nonexistent. The question of whether conservation is being achieved is tautological and depends on how each district defines conservation.https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/30871conservationirrigation districtsprice incentivesrate structurewater use policy |
| spellingShingle | Ari M. Michelsen R. Garth Taylor Ray G. Huffaker J. Thomas McGuckin Emerging Agricultural Water Conservation Price Incentives Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics conservation irrigation districts price incentives rate structure water use policy |
| title | Emerging Agricultural Water Conservation Price Incentives |
| title_full | Emerging Agricultural Water Conservation Price Incentives |
| title_fullStr | Emerging Agricultural Water Conservation Price Incentives |
| title_full_unstemmed | Emerging Agricultural Water Conservation Price Incentives |
| title_short | Emerging Agricultural Water Conservation Price Incentives |
| title_sort | emerging agricultural water conservation price incentives |
| topic | conservation irrigation districts price incentives rate structure water use policy |
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