Effectiveness of Two Water Conservation Policies: An Integrated Modeling Approach

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dc.creatorDas, Biswa R.
dc.creatorWillis, David B.
dc.creatorJohnson, Jeffrey W.
dc.date2017-04-01T19:53:16Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-09T05:31:08Z
dc.descriptionAgriculture in the Texas High Plains depends entirely on the Ogallala Aquifer. Texas enacted water conservation legislation to address declining reserves in the aquifer. We developed an integrated regional water policy model that links a hydrology model with an economic optimization model to estimate policy impacts with respect to economic cost and water conservation. Testing the effectiveness of two policies, a groundwater extraction tax and extraction quotas, we observe that neither significantly inhibits groundwater use. Although both policies conserve similar amounts of groundwater, the regional cost of the tax policy to agriculture is more than the quota policy.
dc.identifierdoi:10.22004/ag.econ.100523
dc.identifierhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/100523/files/jaae332.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/100523
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/564749
dc.languageeng
dc.publisher
dc.sourcehttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/100523
dc.titleEffectiveness of Two Water Conservation Policies: An Integrated Modeling Approach
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