Between 1905 and 1934 over 869 farmers in Owens Valley, California sold their land and associated water rights to Los … Angeles, 250 miles to the southwest. This agriculture-to-urban water transfer increased Los Angeles' water supply by over 4 … took water from a marginal agricultural area and transferred it via the Los Angeles Aqueduct. No other sources of water …

investment. This paper uses a randomized evaluation in Kenya to measure the health impacts of investments to improve source water … impacts of alternative water property rights norms and institutions, including common property, freehold private property, and … institutions, such as "modified Lockean" property rights, government investment or vouchers for improved water, could yield higher …

We estimate the price elasticity of water demand with household-level data, structurally modeling the piecewise … water utility service areas …

In this paper, we examine the impact of poor water quality on avoidance behavior by estimating the change in bottled … water purchases in response to drinking water violations. Using data from a national grocery chain matched with water … quality violations, we find an increase in bottled water sales of 22 percent from violations due to microorganisms and 17 …

Australia's MDB and the western US and their prospects for addressing water scarcity. The two regions share a number of …Fresh water supplies increasingly are under stress in many parts of the world due to rising populations, higher per … capita incomes and corresponding consumption, greater environmental concerns, and the effects of climate change. Water rights …

and water and (ii) explore the adoption of energy saving technologies. Viewed in its totality, this work suggests that … influence the use of energy and water. For academics, the studies reviewed provide a deeper understanding of individual behavior … blueprint outlining ways to combine insights from neo-classical and behavioral economics to manage energy/water demand and …

This paper formulates and estimates a household-level, billing-cycle water demand model under increasing block prices … household demographics in the utility's service territory to recover the impact of these factors on water demand. An index of … models are used to compute the distribution of utility-level water demand and revenues for any possible price schedule …

used to identify strengths and limitations of water markets in: (1) Australia's Murray-Darling Basin; (2) Chile (in …The paper provides an integrated framework to assess water markets in terms of their institutional underpinnings and … the three 'pillars' of integrated water resource management: economic efficiency, equity and environmental sustainability …

more efficient water usage in the production of four California agricultural products. We implement an internet survey … choice experiment for avocados, almonds, lettuce, and tomatoes to elicit consumer valuation for water efficiency via revealed … method (conventional or organic), and water usage (average or efficient). Varying the attribute space presented to consumers …

identifies causal peer effects in water conservation during the growing season, utilizing variation from consumer migration. We … landscaping underpins the peer effects in water consumption. We also provide evidence that without a price signal, peer effects … are muted, demonstrating a complementarity between information transmission and prices. These results inform water use …