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; cotton and field crops). The supply of water for irrigation is subject to climatic and policy uncertainty. Variable inflows … issues facing irrigators, greater pressure is being placed on this finite resource. The uncertainty of the water supply …, water quality (salinity), combined with where water is utilised, while attempting to maximising return for investment makes …
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implemented as part of the Murray–Darling Basin Salinity Management strategy removed over 470,000 tonnes of salt from the water … supply, reducing the salinity of water flowing to Adelaide by about 200 EC units. However, the costs of salinity mitigation …The Murray-Darling Basin faces increasing pressure on water quantity and quality. In 2006-07, salt interception schemes …
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It is likely that climate change will be associated with reductions in inflows of water to the Murray–Darling Basin In … incorporates a state-contingent representation of uncertainty. The severity of the impact depends, in large measure, on the extent …
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salinity interception by the government by twenty five percent as compared to the salinity levy. We observe water prices do not … portion to the estimated forty six million dollar cost per annum of salinity in the Murray River, Australia. Policies … available to regulators include externality taxes and levies. In 2002 the Victorian Government introduced a system of salinity …
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We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …
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environmental question which dominates our time and pose the major challenge to environmental organizations of control. Water is one …: demographic explosion, probable reduction in the water run-offs, scarcity of the resources, the degradation of the hydraulic …
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We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …
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Water's role in manufacturing technologies has received limited attention in econometric studies of natural resource … use. A KLEM model of technology is extended to include three facets of water use: intake, recirculation and discharge, …
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In this ppaer we provide econometric estimates for the water-related technology of the Canadian Food and Beverage …
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a double bounded dichotomous choice suvey instrument to obtain benefit estimates for improvements to water …
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