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PRICE-RESPONSIVENESS OF DEMAND FOR IRRIGATION WATER WITHDRAWALS VS. CONSUMPTIVE USE: ESTIMATES AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS

Young, Robert A.; Cardon, Grant E.; Scheierling, Susanne M. - 2003

Of water withdrawn for agricultural crop irrigation, a portion is consumed and the remainder comes back to the … hydrologic system as return flows. Previous models of irrigation water demand have mostly focused on the change in withdrawals in … response to price changes, even though knowledge of the response of consumptive use is often more significant for river basin …

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Determining the Price-Responsiveness of Demands for Irrigation Water Deliveries versus Consumptive Use

Scheierling, Susanne M.; Young, Robert A.; Cardon, Grant E. - 2004

A water-crop simulation/mathematical programming model of irrigation water demand in northeastern Colorado is …

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Evaluation of Peak Pricing on Single-Family Residential Water Consumption in Seattle

Hsu, David - 2009

Public water utilities have increasingly turned to increasing block rate price structures to reduce water consumption and signal the high environmental costs of water supply. Hsu evaluates the impact of a new and substantially higher price block added to the existing block rate price structure...

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Water Benign Process Innovations and Environmental Regulations. A Case Study of German Chemical Firms during the 1990s

Becker, Frank - 2001

Insbesondere verfolgt diese Studie zwei Hauptziele. Erstens wird das Ausmaß an abwasservermindernden Verfahrensinnovationen bei chemischen Unternehmensstandorten aus dem früheren Bundesgebiet für die 1990er Jahre untersucht. Diese Verfahren können extern erworben oder mit Hilfe...

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The economics of urban water policy : infrastructure, scarcity, and conservation

Hansen, Jason - 2009

This research focuses on urban water policy. The three papers extend the literature through economic application, taking theory in a direction that informs water resource managers on optimal decision-making or a better approach to management. Three primary results are: first, that the optimal...

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A System dynamics model to facilitate public understanding of water management options in Las Vegas, Nevada

Stave, Krystyna Anne - 2003

Water managers increasingly are faced with the challenge of building public or stakeholder support for resource management strategies. Building support requires raising stakeholder awareness of resource problems and understanding about the consequences of different policy options. One approach...

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1991 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study, Technical Appendix: Volume 1.

United States. Bonneville Power Administration. - 2008

This publication provides detailed documentation of the load forecast scenarios and assumptions used in preparing BPA's 1991 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study (the Study). This is one of two technical appendices to the Study; the other appendix details the utility-specific loads and...

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