suggest there to be a market based potential to nudge consumers who want to decrease their water footprint and follow a more … 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 …

Katharine Coman's "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation," published in March 1911 in the first issue of the American … Economic Review addressed issues of water supply, rights, and organization. These same issues have relevance today 100 years … later in face of growing concern about the availability of fresh water worldwide as demand grows and as supplies become more …

This study evaluates two interventions for residential water conservation. Comparing households across an enforcement … algorithm's cutoff using a regression discontinuity design, we find that automated irrigation violation warnings cause … substantial water conservation but also shift some consumption from regulated to unregulated hours within the week. In contrast …

efforts have focused on farm-level irrigation efficiency. However, since over one-third of water applied for agricultural … to significantly reduce water losses. This study utilizes survey data from irrigation water delivery organizations in the … irrigation delivery organization reports a conveyance loss of 15 percent of the total water brought into their system in 2019 …

examine how a producer's beliefs about water shortages influence investment in more efficient irrigation technologies. We then … use publicly available data on water rights and irrigated cropland to empirically identify the impact of changing beliefs … about water availability on conservation decisions. We leverage a natural experiment in Colorado in which a period of severe …

Valley transfer was the first and last, large-scale voluntary market exchange of water from agriculture to urban. Despite …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 …

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 … norms would generate little additional investment while imposing large static costs due to spring owners' local market power …

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

that rationing binds on input use, such that farmers, despite trivial prices for water extraction, use roughly the socially … optimal amount of water on average. The rationing regime is still grossly inefficient, because it misallocates water across …