TY - CHAP
T1 - Design and implementation of markets for groundwater pumping rights
AU - Brozović, Nicholas
AU - Young, Richael
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant No. EAR-0709735, by USDA grant No. AG 2012-67003-19981, and by USDA-NIFA Hatch project number #ILLU-470-369
Funding Information:
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant No. EAR-0709735, by USDA grant No. AG 2012-67003-19981, and by USDA-NIFA Hatch project number #ILLU-470-369.
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Groundwater is an important resource for agricultural and urban water users. In a number of regions around the world, there is rapid change in water management institutions as a result of the impacts of groundwater use on neighboring wells, streams, and groundwater-dependent ecosystems. Increasingly, regulations are based on quantification, monitoring, and enforcement of irrigation rights. Under these conditions, allowing water users to trade pumping rights is a cost-effective mechanism to reduce the costs of regulations on water users. Indeed, despite high transaction costs, nascent markets for tradable groundwater pumping rights have emerged. This chapter describes the history, current institutional context, and economic framework of markets for groundwater pumping rights. In particular, we compare key differences in design and management between groundwater pumping rights markets and surface water markets. We provide a case study that compares groundwater trading to alternate water allocation systems in the Republican River Basin in the United States, an area with active interstate water conflict.
AB - Groundwater is an important resource for agricultural and urban water users. In a number of regions around the world, there is rapid change in water management institutions as a result of the impacts of groundwater use on neighboring wells, streams, and groundwater-dependent ecosystems. Increasingly, regulations are based on quantification, monitoring, and enforcement of irrigation rights. Under these conditions, allowing water users to trade pumping rights is a cost-effective mechanism to reduce the costs of regulations on water users. Indeed, despite high transaction costs, nascent markets for tradable groundwater pumping rights have emerged. This chapter describes the history, current institutional context, and economic framework of markets for groundwater pumping rights. In particular, we compare key differences in design and management between groundwater pumping rights markets and surface water markets. We provide a case study that compares groundwater trading to alternate water allocation systems in the Republican River Basin in the United States, an area with active interstate water conflict.
KW - Enforcement
KW - Environmental management
KW - Monitoring
KW - Spatial externalities
KW - Tradable permits
KW - Transboundary conflicts
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U2 - 10.1007/978-94-017-9081-9_15
DO - 10.1007/978-94-017-9081-9_15
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85022094520
T3 - Global Issues in Water Policy
SP - 283
EP - 303
BT - Global Issues in Water Policy
PB - Springer
ER -