The problem addressed by this study is how a large urban water district can best respond to a drought or the prospect … nonstructural (such as conjunctive use combined with water exchanges or sales), or purely nonstructural approaches (such as changes … in water pricing). The application is to the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD), which includes portions of …

Water suppliers have been adopting new rate structures to promote conservation. The shift away from rates based on … signal about the need to conserve drinking water. The shift toward conservation rate structures, though perhaps providing … better incentives to use scarce water resources wisely, has predictable effects-it changes who pays what and it increases the …

The two main objectives of the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) water supply management program are to cope …) purchase of high quality Mokelumne River water from the nearby Woodbridge Irrigation District, along with sharply rising block … Buckhorn Canyon. Under plausible assumptions, the cost of providing high quality water during a shortage is 10 times as high …

The ideal water contract for a heterogeneous population of users is a prioritized right that is fully vested and fully …. Therefore, they lead to a competitive equilibrium that is Pareto optimal. Equal sharing of water shortfalls does not have this … property. Existing water policies in Israel and the Disputed Territories are not characterized by an efficient set of water …

This paper explains the economic conception of water - how economists think about water. It consists of two main … to water in various ways. Then it considers the debate regarding whether or not water can, or should, be treated as an … economic commodity, and discusses the ways in which water is the same as, or different than, other commodities from an economic …

Valley is constructed and is used to find the effects of reducing water inputs on aggregate Valley gross domestic product … (GDP) and on sectoral output, employment, and land use. The model is also used to determine demand curves for water by the …