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Canada. They depend heavily on rivers that rise in the Rocky Mountains and traverse all three provinces to their outlet on … for the use of prairie rivers, the two provinces joined with the governments of Manitoba and Canada to enter into an …
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Much of Canada lags international leaders in adopting management systems for assuring safe drinking water. Despite some … clear progress in individual provinces, Canada, and small communities in particular, need a system that better promotes and … Canada, public drinking water poses a negligible health risk. But in the wake of a series of management failures with severe …
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instance, when farmers adopt groundwater extraction technology, they need to learn their private marginal cost and marginal … owners with less experience (owners of new wells) with groundwater technology, extract more water than the experienced owners …. Employing panel data at the district level in a fixed-effects model, we find that groundwater extraction rises as the growth …
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: charging water use in agriculture; removing subsidies that negatively impact water resources, regulating groundwater use and …
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substitutes or complements using an individual-level dataset of groundwater usage that accounts for 3% of US irrigated agriculture … reciprocity- and/or race-to-depletion-like dynamics are key to understanding groundwater usage. …
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are tolerated by the authorities. Groundwater overexploitation for irrigation has created in these areas an unprecedented …
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are tolerated by the authorities. Groundwater overexploitation for irrigation has created in these areas an unprecedented …
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myopic competitive (common) exploitation of groundwater resources to a long-term efficient and sustainable allocation. A … groundwater) and (b) a social planner's model (representing the cooperative and sustainable allocation). The deviation of their … equilibrium state of this system. The two models are then applied in a typical rural area of Greece where groundwater is the only …
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This paper examines how a surface water market affects the performance of a groundwater basin that is in open access …. The market only solves the groundwater over-extraction problem when pumping costs are high, while market failure arises … that pumping costs are low and sellers replace whatever amount they sell with groundwater. Therefore, surface water trade …
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Discrete-time stochastic models of groundwater management have been extensively used for understanding a variety of … issues in groundwater management for agriculture. Most models used suffer from two drawbacks: relatively simplistic treatment … economics.This paper provides a unifying framework for discrete-time stochastic groundwater models in two directions; first, the …
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