residential demand for water changes with variations in seasonal precipitation. The findings suggest marked differences between … pricing policy with any capacity planning developed for water supplies as part of anticipatory climate adaptation. Similar …

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 …

shapes the efficiency and equity of resource use, in the context of agricultural groundwater use in Rajasthan, India. We find … 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 …

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 … uncertain due to the potential effects of climate change. The central point of this article is that appropriative water rights …

Fresh water supplies increasingly are under stress in many parts of the world due to rising populations, higher per … capita incomes and corresponding consumption, greater environmental concerns, and the effects of climate change. Water rights … and markets are part of the institutional menus for responding to these problems. We examine water markets in both …

production in five semi-arid western states. We assemble county-level data on dams and other major water infrastructure … analyze the impact of water infrastructure investments on crop mix and yields in affected counties relative to similarly …-endowed counties that lack such infrastructure. We find that water infrastructure smoothes agricultural crop production and increases …

historical and contemporary responses to varying climatic conditions. It indicates the importance of water as an input to … agricultural production and identifies possible impacts of climate change on access to water. It then summarizes a set of eleven … papers from an NBER research project on water, climate change, and the agricultural sector …