Groundwater pumping by heterogeneous users

Saak, Alexander E.; Peterson, Jeffrey M.

doi:10.1007/s10040-012-0854-2

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“…Like Bredehoeft and Young [1970], the authors suggested that part or all of the tax revenue should be rebated to the agents and then question the feasibility of such a scenario. However, Blanco-Gutierrez et al [2011] notes that the efficacy of water use quotas are reduced by high monitoring costs (similar to the tax policy) and Saak and Peterson [2012] show that a uniform quota may also result in unevenly distributed welfare gains among farmers. In addition, the cost that the farmer faces due to this constraint will be borne out in terms of the possible losses due to less water use, especially in drought years.…”

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Assessing groundwater policy with coupled economic‐groundwater hydrologic modeling

Mulligan

Brown

Yang

et al. 2014

Water Resources Research

101

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This study explores groundwater management policies and the effect of modeling assumptions on the projected performance of those policies. The study compares an optimal economic allocation for groundwater use subject to streamflow constraints, achieved by a central planner with perfect foresight, with a uniform tax on groundwater use and a uniform quota on groundwater use. The policies are compared with two modeling approaches, the Optimal Control Model (OCM) and the Multi-Agent System Simulation (MASS). The economic decision models are coupled with a physically based representation of the aquifer using a calibrated MODFLOW groundwater model. The results indicate that uniformly applied policies perform poorly when simulated with more realistic, heterogeneous, myopic, and self-interested agents. In particular, the effects of the physical heterogeneity of the basin and the agents undercut the perceived benefits of policy instruments assessed with simple, single-cell groundwater modeling. This study demonstrates the results of coupling realistic hydrogeology and human behavior models to assess groundwater management policies. The Republican River Basin, which overlies a portion of the Ogallala aquifer in the High Plains of the United States, is used as a case study for this analysis.

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Section: Background On Groundwater Policy (Taxes Versus Quotas)mentioning

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Assessing groundwater policy with coupled economic‐groundwater hydrologic modeling

Mulligan

Brown

Yang

et al. 2014

Water Resources Research

101

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“…Several studies on the economics of groundwater management have moved away from the representative farmer framework introduced by Gisser and Sanchez (1980). These studies (Feinerman and Knapp, 1983;Saak and Peterson, 2012;Guilfoos et al, 2016) have considered different sources of heterogeneity among producers, including land size and crop type, and have shown that different aquifer management policies could have different cost-effectiveness and distributional effects. Hrozencik et al (2017) introduce well capacity as a source of heterogeneity in a hydro-economic framework.…”

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Effects of instantaneous groundwater availability on irrigated agriculture and implications for aquifer management

Rad

Brozović

Foster

et al. 2020

Resource and Energy Economics

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“…The single-cell model can be criticized for its strong assumptions about hydrology, which do not accord with the spatial heterogeneity and the slow rates of lateral flow observed in many aquifers (Saak and Peterson, 2012). Recent literature has relaxed the assumptions of instantaneous lateral flow and spatial uniformity (Gaudet et al 2001, Xabadia et al 2004…”

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Optimal groundwater management under climate change and technical progress

Quintana-Ashwell

Peterson

Hendricks

2018

Resource and Energy Economics

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We develop a dynamic model of groundwater extraction for irrigation where climate change and technical change are included as exogenous state variables in addition to the usual state variable of the stock of groundwater. Our key contributions are (i) an intuitive description of the conditions under which groundwater extraction can be non-monotonic, (ii) a numerical demonstration that extraction is non-monotonic in an important region overlying the Ogallala Aquifer, and (iii) the predicted gains from management are substantially larger after accounting for climate and technical change. Intuitively, optimal extraction is increasing in early periods when the marginal benefits of extraction are increasing sufficiently fast due to climate and technical change compared to the increase in the marginal cost of extraction. In contrast, most previous studies include the stock of groundwater as the only state variable and recommend a monotonically decreasing

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Groundwater pumping by heterogeneous users

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Cited by 14 publications

References 20 publications

Assessing groundwater policy with coupled economic‐groundwater hydrologic modeling

Assessing groundwater policy with coupled economic‐groundwater hydrologic modeling

Effects of instantaneous groundwater availability on irrigated agriculture and implications for aquifer management

Optimal groundwater management under climate change and technical progress

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