Recent writings on China's water situation often portray China's water problems as severe and suggest that water … accounting approach to investigate both the contribution played in the past by water availability in constraining China's growth … availability could threaten the sustainability of China's future growth. However, China's high growth of the last 20 years or more …

property rights. We apply this estimator to a major aquifer in water-scarce southern California and find that the introduction … of ground- water property rights generated substantial net benefits, as capitalized in land values. Heterogeneity … analyses suggest gains arise in part from tradeability of these rights, which enables more efficient water use …

extend this idea using a large natural field experiment in water resource management. We use social comparisons and loss … water use. Our results show that seemingly related behavioral instruments can affect different household decisions. By …-resistant plants, and only the social comparison reduces water consumption. These results highlight the importance of testing different …

Global climate change is already impacting water resources and, in many areas, reducing the amount of water available … for drinking, sanitation, and agriculture. Water conservation can be a means to mitigate the economic damages associated … with water scarcity, including scarcity arising from climate change. In the agricultural sector, most water conservation …

The Clean Water Act (CWA) significantly improved surface water quality, but at a cost exceeding the estimated benefits …

have spent nearly $5 trillion ($2017) to provide clean rivers, lakes, and drinking water, or annual spending of 0.8 percent … of U.S. GDP in most years. Yet over half of rivers and substantial shares of drinking water systems violate standards …, and polls for decades have listed water pollution as Americans' number one environmental concern. We assess the history …

This study evaluates two interventions for residential water conservation. Comparing households across an enforcement … substantial water conservation but also shift some consumption from regulated to unregulated hours within the week. In contrast …, we show using data from a randomized experiment with the same customers that normative Home Water Reports reduce water …

Providing clean water requires maintenance, as well as the initial connections that are typically measured. Frequently …, the water supply fails in the developing world, especially when users don't pay the marginal cost of water. This paper … uses the timing of frequent, unexpected water service outages in Lusaka, Zambia to identify the short-term impacts of piped …

The quality and inequality of US drinking water investments have gained attention after recent environmental disasters … Drinking Water Act with the targeting of congressional drinking water earmarks ("pork barrel" spending). Earmarks are often …, Hispanic, and low-income communities, partly due to targeting water systems serving large populations. Earmark and loan …