Many rural landowners within the Western United States do not have access to a secure water supply provided by a major … dam or an irrigation district. Such water users must rely instead on groundwater pumping and/or seasonal water flows from … secure their spring/summer water needs. However, regulatory agencies have increased restrictions on surface water storage and …

A meta-analysis of reported water demand elasticities shows that publication selection bias results in water demand …. A random effects estimator is used to derive water demand elasticity estimates that are efficient and unbiased by … elasticity estimate drops to -.08%. Indoor water demand is almost perfectly inelastic. Water demands and their elasticities are …

Approximately 75% of all water used by humans goes towards food production, much of which is traded internationally … trade theory and new data on the productivity by which countries use water for crop agriculture. The strength of the model … for products that use water intensively. In one application of the model, international trade in final products is shown …

This study extends and refines a previous model and provides estimates of the economic value of water shortages from … irrigation technology use, water source substitution, and other mitigation strategies used by farmers to deal with water … in deriving the marginal value of irrigation water for reference drought years. Results show that South Texas farmers …