A systems perspective on water markets: barriers, bright spots, and building blocks for the next generation

Garrick, Dustin; Balasubramanya, Soumya; Beresford, Melissa; Wutich, Amber; Gilson, Gina; Jorgensen, Isabel; Brozović, Nicholas; Cox, Michael; Dai, Xiaoping; Erfurth, Sophie; Rimšaitė, Renata; Talbot-Jones, Julia; Unnikrishnan, Hita; Wight, Charles; Villamayor-Tomás, Sergio; Mendoza, Karla Vazquez

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“…Farm scale operating costs range from $0 to $5 per hour (table 1). In addition, some countries such as Chile, Australia and the United States develop water markets for trading water rights but these are not easily implementable in smallholder contexts (Garrick et al 2023). The most crucial aspects of sustainable irrigation economics in smallholder environments can be easily captured in agronomic or other food system surveys through the following aspects: Lastly, mapping irrigation systems, costs, and how these affect sustainable irrigation practices also need to consider farmers' livelihoods.…”

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Economics of sustainable irrigation in smallholder agriculture: implications for food security and climate action

Urfels,

Mirzabaev,

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Environ. Res. Lett.

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Section: Towards a Systems Framework For Irrigation Water Delivery In...mentioning

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Economics of sustainable irrigation in smallholder agriculture: implications for food security and climate action

Urfels,

Mirzabaev,

Bricx

et al. 2024

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…These systems can operate in the absence of—or integrated alongside—existing formal, centralized systems of water or sewer provision. In other cases, previously ignored MAD water systems, such as water sharing (Rosinger et al, 2020) and informal water markets (Garrick et al, 2023), are newly receiving attention from scholars and practitioners. In other cases, we see a hybrid of old practices, such as rainwater harvesting, with new technologies (e.g., Voth‐Gaeddert et al, 2022).…”

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MAD water: Integrating modular, adaptive, and decentralized approaches for water security in the climate change era

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Centralized water infrastructure has, over the last century, brought safe and reliable drinking water to much of the world. But climate change, combined with aging and underfunded infrastructure, is increasingly testing the limits of—and reversing gains made by—this approach. To address these growing strains and gaps, we must assess and advance alternatives to centralized water provision and sanitation. The water literature is rife with examples of systems that are neither centralized nor networked, yet meet water needs of local communities in important ways, including: informal and hybrid water systems, decentralized water provision, community‐based water management, small drinking water systems, point‐of‐use treatment, small‐scale water vendors, and packaged water. Our work builds on these literatures by proposing a convergence approach that can integrate and explore the benefits and challenges of modular, adaptive, and decentralized (“MAD”) water provision and sanitation, often foregrounding important advances in engineering technology. We further provide frameworks to evaluate justice, economic feasibility, governance, human health, and environmental sustainability as key parameters of MAD water system performance.This article is categorized under: Engineering Water > Water, Health, and Sanitation Human Water > Water Governance Engineering Water > Sustainable Engineering of Water

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“…Rather, in the context of market exchanges, moral economies normatively regulate how much people (or organizations) should gain or profit off of a vital resource (like water), especially when others are still in need. Although there are many types of and uses for water markets, scholars have recently called for investigating the socio‐political factors and institutions that allow water markets to achieve water justice (Garrick et al, 2019, 2022, 2023; O'Donnell & Garrick, 2019). We propose that the moral economy framework can help advance this goal.…”

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“…They indicate ways that local communities normatively mobilize and regulate local markets to both facilitate water access and uphold notions of water justice. These cases illustrate that nonstate, market-based water provisioning systems may not be inherently unjust (Garrick et al, 2022(Garrick et al, , 2023. In other words, if appropriately regulated by communities via a moral economy, water markets may be an avenue to advancing water justice.…”

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Moral economies for water: A framework for analyzing norms of justice, economic behavior, and social enforcement in the contexts of water inequality

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Over the past two decades, scholars have invoked E. P. Thompson's and James Scott's concept of a "moral economy" to explain how people mobilize notions of justice to make claims to water. We draw together 20 years of literature to assess the state-of-the-art present in research on moral economies for water. We trace the historical foundations of the moral economies concept and its relevance to water; define the three basic components of a moral economy for water-(1) shared understandings of justice, (2) normative economic practices, (3) social pressure mechanisms-and provide examples of how they manifest globally. We then discuss how moral economies for water can cycle through four basic statesbalanced struggle, intensified reaction, mass revolt, and collapse and dissolution-at different scales. We also explore the implications of the moral economies framework for key areas of current research on water: water sharing, water commons, water markets, and biocultural outcomes, and discuss the ways in which the moral economies framework dovetails with recent advances in water research, especially the economics of water and development. We argue that the moral economies framework is a powerful explanatory tool for understanding the relationships between ideas of water justice, economic behaviors, and mechanisms of social enforcement that complements other methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives. We envision moral economies for water as a field that can facilitate a range of norm-based analyses of economic behavior and water justice, including across scales-from local to global-and in broad, integrative, multiscalar, and cross-disciplinary ways.

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A systems perspective on water markets: barriers, bright spots, and building blocks for the next generation

Cited by 10 publications

References 38 publications

Economics of sustainable irrigation in smallholder agriculture: implications for food security and climate action

Economics of sustainable irrigation in smallholder agriculture: implications for food security and climate action

MAD water: Integrating modular, adaptive, and decentralized approaches for water security in the climate change era

Moral economies for water: A framework for analyzing norms of justice, economic behavior, and social enforcement in the contexts of water inequality

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