Water resource management is complicated in practice on account of the diverse nature of the resource and its many uses …. This volume reports recent economic research on the theory, practice, and policy of water management. It is distinguished … by the number and the range of the applications it considers. Chapters consider problems in the estimation of water …

water under increasing block-rate tariffs and empirically assess its effect on aggregate demand and inter-farm allocation … prices in 185 Israeli agricultural communities in the period 1992-1997, we estimate water demand elasticity at -0.3 in the … water use while maintaining the same average price. However, based on our simulations we estimate that the switch to block …