for drinking, sanitation, and agriculture. Water conservation can be a means to mitigate the economic damages associated … efforts have focused on farm-level irrigation efficiency. However, since over one-third of water applied for agricultural … irrigation in the U.S. comes from off-farm supplies, improvements in delivery and conveyance efficiency also have the potential …

examine how a producer's beliefs about water shortages influence investment in more efficient irrigation technologies. We then … a more efficient irrigation technology on average. We also present evidence that adoption rates are driven more by … incentivizing adaptation to increasing water scarcity in irrigated agriculture …

Katharine Coman's "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation," published in March 1911 in the first issue of the American … and irrigation districts that emerged in the American West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in response to …

algorithm's cutoff using a regression discontinuity design, we find that automated irrigation violation warnings cause … irrigation policy enforcement. Our findings highlight the merits of implementing multidimensional conservation programs …

This paper highlights the role of agriculture in the American economy and society over time and points to farmer …

Australia's MDB and the western US and their prospects for addressing water scarcity. The two regions share a number of …, market structure and government regulation. We show that rights are more clearly defined and trading more common in Australia …

used to identify strengths and limitations of water markets in: (1) Australia's Murray-Darling Basin; (2) Chile (in …

The standard treatment of U.S. agriculture asserts that, before the 1930s, productivity growth was almost exclusively … the result of mechanization rather than biological innovations. This paper shows that, to the contrary, U.S. wheat … grown and cultural practices employed. Without these changes, vast expanses of the wheat belt could not have sustained …