Australia, a country which suffers from recurrent droughts, is currently experiencing a shift in climate. It is often classified as the driest inhabited continent due to the extremely low annual average rainfall (465 mm) and associated low annual average runoff (57 mm). This has required ... Read More
Water right transfers are one of the basic means of implementing changes in water use in the highly appropriated water resource systems of the western United States. Many of these systems are governed by the Prior Appropriation Doctrine, which was not originally intended for application t... Read More
Rising urban and environmental demand for water has created growing pressure to reallocate water from traditional agricultural uses. The evolution of water markets has been more complicated than those for other resources. In this paper, we first explain these differences by examining water rights... Read More
Texas groundwater law is based on the rule of capture; however, recent legislation provides groundwater conservation districts with the authority to implement groundwater use rules to manage aquifers. The objective of this study was to develop optimization models to analyze effects of groundwater... Read More
Reformation of the policies for allocating Australia's water resources has now assumed profound political, economic and social significance. However, there are marked contrasts between urban and agricultural sectors, in the approach to policy reform. Whereas governments have embarked on a range o... Read More
This article applies a model of innovation to analyze the characteristics of irrigators within the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District in Australia and examines the efficiency of the early water market in the late 1990s. Using multinominal and binary logit analyses we identify the factors associa... Read More
Ground water is a source of drinking water for many people and is the primary source for irrigation and livestock watering in the Great Lakes region. The use of ground water in the Great Lakes Basin has substantially increased in the past few decades due to population growth, technologica... Read More
This paper is about the identification of the changing world climate drivers and speculation concerning the future impact such drivers will have on countries in the southern hemisphere, especially Australia and New Zealand. A focus for the above is a case study of climate change which has... Read More
The article focuses on the effort of the Yucaipa Valley Water District (YVWD) in California to adopt a water banking strategy. It is a way of coping with the drought and uncertainties that involve water deliveries from the Sacramento Delta. The strategy was one of the long-term conservation polic... Read More
According to the National Water Policy in South Africa the objectives are to achieve equitable access to water, and to promote efficient and sustainable use for optimum social and economic benefit. The National Water Act provides the legal, framework and the National Water Resource Strate... Read More
