The effects of irrigation modernization on the cost recovery of water in the Valencia Region (Spain)

García-Mollá, Marta; Ortega-Reig, Mar; Ibor, Carles Sanchís; Avellá-Reus, Llorenç

doi:10.2166/ws.2013.215

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“…), even though intensive irrigated agriculture constitutes the main cause of degradation (both qualitative and quantitative) of surface and groundwaters [10,31]. Public subsidies for the modernisation of irrigation schemes have generally implied a reduction of the cost recovery rates [51]. Additionally, the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) supported the development of agriculture of a more profitable (and input-intensive) nature until its reform in 2013, which enlarged the cross-compliance system between the receipt of subsidies and the respect for a set of environmental goals (including water-quality issues) [52].…”

Section: Discussion and Policy Implicationsmentioning

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Irrigated Agriculture and the Cost Recovery Principle of Water Services: Assessment and Discussion of the Case of the Guadalquivir River Basin (Spain)

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2018

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The Cost Recovery Principle (CRP) is considered by the European Union (EU) water policy as a substantial requirement for economic efficiency, transparency, fairness, and sustainability in the use of water resources. Nevertheless, the implementation of the CRP by EU Member States has encountered significant challenges, both theoretical and practical, especially regarding the accounting of environmental and resource costs related to water use by the agricultural sector. This paper aims to analyse the application of the CRP to the agricultural irrigation sector in Spain, based on the case study of the Guadalquivir River Basin. To this end, an assessment of the financial, environmental, and resource costs (and the corresponding cost recovery rates) of water services related to the irrigation sector was carried out for this specific river basin. Additionally, this study aimed to offer a much-needed discussion on the agricultural “exceptionalism” phenomenon regarding the application of the CRP at the moment when water and agricultural EU policies are being reviewed to guarantee a more sustainable development of agriculture when using such a strategic natural resource.

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Section: Discussion and Policy Implicationsmentioning

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Irrigated Agriculture and the Cost Recovery Principle of Water Services: Assessment and Discussion of the Case of the Guadalquivir River Basin (Spain)

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2018

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“…This is due to the fact that factors such us the origin of the water sources, the decrease in water consumption achieved, energy use efficiency and energy cost play an important role (García-Mollá et al, 2014). Paradoxically, policies promoting a collective shift to drip irrigation appear to favour the loss of water material and immaterial heritage.…”

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Collective management of irrigation in eastern Spain. Integration of new technologies and water resources.

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Vicent Andrés EstellésLes pedres de l'àmfora. Obra completa 2, (1972, p.252), L'Estel, Valencia (Spain) The aim of this thesis is to analyze how farmer-managed systems adapt to the changes related to the integration of new water resources and drip irrigation technologies. This work includes two main parts. The first one focuses on traditional gravity irrigation and the emergence of new water resources. The second one looks at irrigation systems that have been transformed to drip irrigation. All the studies included in this dissertation centre the attention in understanding aspects of collective management. For this reason, special consideration is placed on the perceptions of farmers and managers of Water User Associations by means of semi-structured interviews.Chapters two and three study the operating principles for water management.These principles, when applied by farmers as collective rules, result in interactions that create equity on water rights and transparency. The study area includes the irrigation system of the Huerta of Valencia (Spain). This system, well known internationally, has traditionally used surface water from the Turia River. Though recently, the use of groundwater and treated wastewater have been integrated with surface water. In this context, the analysis evolves around the subject of how the rules, developed for the sharing of surface water, have been adapted for conjunctive use of these new water resources. In addition, attention is also placed on how this process was crucial for the management of the 2005 -2008 drought period.Results show that the operating principles, based in the proportionality and uniformity on irrigation frequency between users, underlie a system of distribution that is equitable, transparent and robust. In addition, the use of drought emergency wells and the reuse of treated wastewater have not resulted in any important conflict. These resources are used together with surface water during drought periods, increasing the guarantee of supply. However, treated wastewater use affects the uniformity on irrigation frequency among Water User Associations. Besides, Groundwater User Associations overlap in irrigated surface, farmers and infrastructure with Water User Associations Chapter five discusses and compares the implications of the previous chapters.Some aspects of irrigation management and governance are assessed in a more detailed manner for the case of gravity irrigation Water Users Associations. In addition, the changes related to the introduction of drip irrigation technologies and new water resources are further compared. The two processes present challenges for irrigation organization. Meanwhile the integration of new water sources has been gradual and does not entail major changes for self-organization, drip irrigation promotes a fundamental institutional change. This change may have a disruptive effect on self-organization if this new community-based drip irrigation does not manage to adapt and include braoder aspects of irrigation management beyond pu...

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“…However, in recent years, many authors have questioned whether drip irrigation actually achieves a net saving of water (e.g., Playán & Mateos, 2006;Perry et al 2009;Lecina et al, 2010;Van der Kooij et al, 2013). Further, in certain contexts, it has negative effects on energy consumption (Jackson et al, 2010;Rodríguez-Díaz et al 2011) and using it overall will increase irrigation costs (García-Mollá et al, 2014). In general, this tool needs commodified resources, market conditions and support measures to succeed (Dumont et al, 2014;Sanchis-Ibor et al, 2017;López-Gunn et al 2012).…”

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Collective irrigation reloaded. Re-collection and re-moralization of water management after privatization in Spain

2017

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In recent decades, water has been subjected to different commodification and decollectivization processes. Increasingly, this is also affecting collective irrigation water management. Critical analysis of this privatization and de-collectivization wave in the irrigation sector has mainly focused on neoliberal institutional policies and marketoriented legislation. However, subtly and silently but equally determinant, the adoption of water-saving technologies is fostering the penetration of private enterprise and market-based governance into these hydro-social settings. This paper discusses this phenomenon through a case study of the community of Senyera in Valencia, Spain, tracking the privatization and subsequent contestation and re-takeover of water management by irrigation system users. The article shows how privatization removes users' autonomy in the name of common well-being, and increases irrigation costs in a context of little transparency. But the case also highlights users' capacity to re-value and re-signify their past collective action, remembering and 're-membering to' the collective. Senyera water users critically and reflexively analyse privatization, reconstruct societal relationships around and embedded inside the new technology, and re-collectivize and re-moralize irrigation management in a new hydro-social scenario.

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The effects of irrigation modernization on the cost recovery of water in the Valencia Region (Spain)

Cited by 9 publications

References 4 publications

Irrigated Agriculture and the Cost Recovery Principle of Water Services: Assessment and Discussion of the Case of the Guadalquivir River Basin (Spain)

Irrigated Agriculture and the Cost Recovery Principle of Water Services: Assessment and Discussion of the Case of the Guadalquivir River Basin (Spain)

Collective management of irrigation in eastern Spain. Integration of new technologies and water resources.

Collective irrigation reloaded. Re-collection and re-moralization of water management after privatization in Spain

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