The intertemporal management of irrigation water involves a consumption-storage decision, where the benefits of using water today are evaluated against the uncertain benefits of storing water for future use. Traditionally in Australia, state governments have centrally managed the major water...

Australian urban water utilities face a significant challenge in designing appropriate demand management and supply augmentation policies in the presence of increasing water scarcity and uncertainty over future dam inflows. This paper considers the design of optimal demand management and supply...

It is commonly noted that Australian water rights, specifically those prevailing within the Murray-Darling Basin, represent a significant departure from hydrological reality (see for example Young and McColl 2009). Where water rights depart from the physical realities of water supply networks,...

This study introduces two advances to the aggregate productivity index methodology typically employed by ABARES. First, it accounts for the effects of climate variability on measured productivity by matching spatial climate data to individual farms in the ABARES farm surveys database. Second, a...

The ABARE (now ABARES) survey of irrigation farms in the Murray–Darling Basin began in 2006–07 and provides a comprehensive farm-level panel dataset, which, to date, has seen limited econometric analysis (Ashton et al. 2009). At present, three complete years of irrigation survey data are...

It is commonly noted that Australian water rights, specifically those prevailing within the Murray-Darling Basin,represent a significant departure from hydrological reality (see for example Young and McColl 2009). Where waterrights depart from the physical realities of water supply networks,...

Australian urban water utilities face a significant challenge in designing appropriate demand management and supply augmentation policies in the presence of significant water scarcity and climate variability. This article considers the design of optimal demand management and supply augmentation...

Australian urban water utilities face a significant challenge in designing appropriate demand management and supply augmentation policies in the presence of significant water scarcity and climate variability. This article considers the design of optimal demand management and supply augmentation...