more efficient water usage in the production of four California agricultural products. We implement an internet survey … choice experiment for avocados, almonds, lettuce, and tomatoes to elicit consumer valuation for water efficiency via revealed … method (conventional or organic), and water usage (average or efficient). Varying the attribute space presented to consumers …

-resistant plants, and only the social comparison reduces water consumption. These results highlight the importance of testing different … 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 …

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 …

This paper formulates and estimates a household-level, billing-cycle water demand model under increasing block prices … household demographics in the utility's service territory to recover the impact of these factors on water demand. An index of … models are used to compute the distribution of utility-level water demand and revenues for any possible price schedule …

Between 1905 and 1934 over 869 farmers in Owens Valley, California sold their land and associated water rights to Los … Angeles, 250 miles to the southwest. This agriculture-to-urban water transfer increased Los Angeles' water supply by over 4 … took water from a marginal agricultural area and transferred it via the Los Angeles Aqueduct. No other sources of water …

In this paper, we examine the impact of poor water quality on avoidance behavior by estimating the change in bottled … water purchases in response to drinking water violations. Using data from a national grocery chain matched with water … quality violations, we find an increase in bottled water sales of 22 percent from violations due to microorganisms and 17 …

investment. This paper uses a randomized evaluation in Kenya to measure the health impacts of investments to improve source water … impacts of alternative water property rights norms and institutions, including common property, freehold private property, and … institutions, such as "modified Lockean" property rights, government investment or vouchers for improved water, could yield higher …

We estimate the price elasticity of water demand with household-level data, structurally modeling the piecewise … water utility service areas …

the policies intended to increase their sustainability--increase costs to agricultural producers, with unknown …'s sustainability targets--would lead farmers to reallocate 3.9 percent of cropland, with increases in fallowing and high-value fruit …