prices, water availability and climate conditions for the second half of a decade long drought in the Murray–Darling Basin …, Australia. We find statistically significant evidence of irrigation area decline with reductions in water allocations and … water allocations estimated are much less than those implicit in other economic assessments of water scarcity impacts for …

The 2011 and 2012 droughts considerably affected the Ogallala Aquifer supplying irrigation water for agricultural … production in the US High Plains (HP). Shrinking water resources and growing demand for water create a challenging tradeoff … situation. This also poses a question about the value of water and efficient water allocation. Currently, water rates for …

using a simple computation procedure and measurements of soil water content and water balance, nitrate concentrations in … drainage water and meteorological data, and to assess the impacts of the duration of the grassland phase and the level of … nitrogen fertilization on grassland on the drainage water quality. The study was carried out at a site of the Long …

Virtual water and water footprints have gained recognition as indicators to guide action on issues related to water … scarcity. I argue that water footprints are fundamentally different from carbon footprints, as local reductions in carbon … emissions have global benefits, while global attempts to reduce water footprints will have neither necessary beneficial impacts …

Naturalization and universal application of concepts such as ‘efficiency’ and ‘productivity’ by policy makers and water … experts in the water sector leads water managers and water users to internalize these norms. As we show in this exploratory … projects that deprive smallholders of water use rights; second, expert-driven water policy and project notions of efficiency …