Sustainable Water Policies and the Optimal Development of Desalination Technologies
| dc.creator | Tsur, Yacov | |
| dc.creator | Zemel, Amos | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T20:12:22Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T10:17:57Z | |
| dc.description | In many arid and semi-arid regions whether or not to use desalinated water has long been a non-issue and policy debates are focused on the timing and extent of the desalination activities. We offer a model to analyze how water scarcity and demand structure, on the one hand, and cost reduction via R&D activities, on the other hand, affect the desirable development of desalination technologies and the optimal time profiles of fresh and desalinated water supplies. The optimal R&D policy is found to follow a Non-Standard Most Rapid Approach Path (NSMRAP): The state of desalination technology—the accumulated knowledge from R&D activities—should approach a prespecified target process as rapidly as possible and proceed along it forever. The NSMRAP property enables a complete characterization of a comprehensive water policy in terms of a simple and tractable set of rules. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.232816 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/232816/files/hebrewuniv-workingpapers-9902.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/232816 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/617422 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/232816 | |
| dc.title | Sustainable Water Policies and the Optimal Development of Desalination Technologies | |
| dc.type | Text |