Water Act. The Endangered Species Act (ESA) places restrictions on land uses for private landowners if endangered species …) compensates farmers for removing valuable property from agricultural production to preserve wildlife habitat, water and soil … quality, and other ecosystem values. Section 404 of the Clean Water Act prohibits destruction or damage to wetlands, unless …

We examine the effect of the introduction of uniform water-charging for aquifer management and provide evidence using a … survey-based choice experiment of agricultural water users in rural Tunisia. Theoretically, we show that the implementation … small landholders. Empirically, we find that resistance to the introduction of an effective water-charging regime is …

In this study we use datasets from the 1995 and 2000 Community Water Supply surveys to examine the production costs of … water supply systems. We first estimate the economies of scale in water supply by estimating the total unit cost as well as … gains and some production economies do not necessarily depend on water systems’ becoming physically interconnected. …

The environmental Kuznets curve theory suggests that economic growth may reduce environmental problems. In this article …