Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of supply capacity constraint, water delivery loss and …/methodology/approach - Two game-theoretic decision models for the IBWT supply chain coordination considering water delivery loss without … water capacity to be allocated among IBWT distributors in accordance with fair shortage allocation rule and reduces the …

but also for the broader world economy as the cooperative or conflicted nature of this relationship will set the tone for …

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 …

instance, is home to between eight and fifteen percent of the world’s fresh water, and its fast-growing economy and population …This article examines two of the major water legal regimes in the Americas - that of Brazil and the United States. Both … present major challenges in management and allocation. The U.S. also faces major water allocation problems resulting from past …

Use of water in agriculture has a major driving force behind general water use patterns in the United States. To assess … water's usage and value to agricultural production, this paper adopts the two error stochastic frontier analysis model of …: capital; labor; intermediate inputs; and water withdrawals. We include environmental variables to account for climate effects …

Global climate change is already impacting water resources and, in many areas, reducing the amount of water available … for drinking, sanitation, and agriculture. Water conservation can be a means to mitigate the economic damages associated … with water scarcity, including scarcity arising from climate change. In the agricultural sector, most water conservation …