Download or read book A Quantitative Analysis of Private Property Rights in Groundwater written by Robert William Provencher and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Quantitative Analysis of the Economics of Groundwater Privatization written by Oscar Burt and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Property Rights in Groundwater written by Nebraska Natural Resources Commission and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Valuing Ground Water written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-07-10 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because water in the United State has not been traded in markets, there is no meaningful estimate of what it would cost if it were traded. But failing to establish ground water's valueâ€"for in situ uses such as sustaining wetlands as well as for extractive uses such as agricultureâ€"will lead to continued overuse and degradation of the nation's aquifers. In Valuing Ground Water an interdisciplinary committee integrates the latest economic, legal, and physical knowledge about ground water and methods for valuing this resource, making it comprehensible to decision-makers involved in Superfund cleanup efforts, local wellhead protection programs, water allocation, and other water-related management issues. Using the concept of total economic value, this volume provides a framework for calculating the economic value of ground water and evaluating tradeoffs between competing uses of it. Included are seven case studies where ground-water valuation has been or could be used in decisionmaking. The committee examines trends in ground-water management, factors that contribute to its value, and issues surrounding ground-water allocation and legal rights to its use. The book discusses economic valuation of natural resources and reviews several valuation methods. Presenting conclusions, recommendations, and research priorities, Valuing Ground Water will be of interest to those concerned about ground-water issues: policymakers, regulators, economists, attorneys, researchers, resource managers, and environmental advocates.

Download or read book Groundwater Wells Versus Surface Water and Ecosystems written by Rebecca Louise Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundwater supplies cities and industries, feeds rivers and lakes, and supports an astounding array of biodiversity and land features, from desert oases to geysers. Despite its importance, groundwater allocation laws tend to be relative newcomers to water law frameworks globally. As frequently noted in the water management and legal literatures, water laws often lack legal tools to deal with competition between groundwater users, on the one hand, and human and ecological users of hydrologically "connected resources"--Surface water right holders and advocates for groundwater-dependent ecosystems ("GDEs") --on the other hand, which groundwater pumping may affect. If law does not make these links, it may inadvertently reduce the reliability of surface water rights and allow pumping to damage or destroy GDEs. Three stand-alone, but interconnected, empirically focused studies deal with law and policy tools for linking groundwater pumping and its potential impacts on connected surface water rights and GDEs ("linking tools"). They span the laws and policies of 25 state jurisdictions across the western U.S. and Australia, which manifest key differences, as well as important similarities. The first, Framework Study, builds a typology of linking tools, and analyzes the issues that arise in implementing them from two perspectives: administering agency practitioners, and policy design theory. The second, Offsets Study, evaluates a promising and under-studied linking tool: offset rules. These lift prohibitions on pumping stream-connected groundwater provided the pumper neutralizes adverse impacts on surface water rights before they manifest. The third, Conflicts Study, examines for the first time how California deals with conflicts over groundwater pumping and connected resources without a specific law and policy regime to manage them. The studies are based on an extensive law and policy review; 40 hours of interviews with state agencies; quantitative analysis of a large state water rights database; and the construction and analysis of a database of conflicts using content analysis, descriptive statistics and geographic information systems. A broad range of linking tools exists on paper and in practice. Tools either prevent predicted adverse impacts on surface water rights and GDEs at the groundwater permitting stage, or remedy existing impacts. They set thresholds of acceptable impact using either regulatory (achieved through government regulation) or voluntary (generally achieved directly or indirectly through government payments) methods. Markets offer flexibility in meeting thresholds generally by enabling users to buy rights rather than restrict their own pumping. In practice, state-based, direct regulatory linking tools dominate. In the western U.S., these often adopt very low preventive thresholds of acceptable risk to surface water rights, but include few tailored protections for GDEs. Along each dimension, the opposite generally applies in Australian states, likely due to different legal and cultural preferences for water shortage-sharing, notions of property rights, and preferences for maintaining status quo conditions associated with both. States in both nations generally lack many theoretical linking tools, including groundwater rights equivalent to instream flows, self-regulatory and co-regulatory strategies, and economic tools that set acceptable thresholds of harm, such as taxes. These gaps appear starkly compared to their significant development in environmental policy tools. Significant reform opportunities are identified through the framework typology, analysis based on practical implementation issues (which often relate to the burden of obtaining groundwater information), and policy design analysis that uncovers varying discretion, administrative burden, cost and equity inherent in different tools. Opportunities include developing missing tools, and strengthening weaknesses, inspired by outstanding state approaches to implementation issues--particularly those which redress gaps in protection for GDEs and address cost concerns in implementation, especially relating to information burdens. One promising tool, groundwater offset rules, could be extended beyond its geographical limits in eight western U.S. states, and beyond its conceptual focus on protecting surface water rights (but not yet GDEs) from the impacts of groundwater pumping. Effective groundwater offset rules deal with two key threats to the equivalence of stream depletion impacts (I) and offsets (O): (1) mis-quantification of I or O, and (2) non-fungibility between I and O in relation to space (where each has effect), type (the "units" of each), or time (when each has effect). Relative to offset rules in the environmental sphere, western U.S. states often adopt groundwater offset measures that require extensive, case-specific technical and administrative work (as tends to occur for linking tools there generally), and public review, with high potential costs for agencies and pumpers. Theory suggests such measures should encourage thin markets and little practical use of the rules, particularly where the groundwater is of relatively low value. However, a case study of Idaho's offset rules shows that they are widely used and that certain requirements, for example, public review, appear to be less burdensome than the environmental offset literature fears. On the other hand, Idaho's active water markets are little used to combat potential cost issues associated with finding offsets to purchase. Western U.S. groundwater offset rules tend to lack several features of environmental offset rules, notably mitigation sequencing, high offset ratios, and out-of-kind offsets, though they are emerging slowly. Such features could help reduce risks of non-equivalence and deal with challenges noted by administering water agencies, particularly those relating to cost. The five-year database of 55 Californian conflicts about the impacts of pumping groundwater on connected resources demonstrates the danger of relying on incidental regulation of such impacts through a pre-existing patchwork of generic laws, rather than tailored linking tools. These conflicts occur widely across California, both in terms of geography and the water use sectors and ecosystems involved. Conflicts appear outside the geographical focus of current groundwater management efforts, which are largely blind to them, and practical problems confound the application of existing (generally environmental) laws to these conflicts, in even those situations where they clearly apply. Yet these weaknesses have inspired both the creative use of existing laws, and the notable involvement of non-traditional participants in groundwater management, prominent among which is the federal government. Tailored linking tools are highly desirable to consider the impacts of pumping groundwater on connected resources. Many tools are available. They could be modified, and others created, to suit different contexts, fill existing gaps, and deal with weaknesses and implementation problems. Offsets deserve particular exploration. The broad-ranging lessons of this project could inform not just groundwater policy development within and beyond the subject regions, but also the design and implementation of tools in the context of an equally complex, larger, often data-poor natural world that is so often subject to fragmented administrative and regulatory systems.

Download or read book A Private Property Rights Regime to Replenish a Groundwater Aquifer written by Bill Provencher and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Economic Analysis of Property Rights written by Bryan Leonard and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We analyze the economic determinants and effects of prior appropriation water rights that were voluntarily implemented across a vast area of the US West, replacing common-law riparian water rights. We model potential benefits and test hypotheses regarding search, coordination, and investment. Our novel data set of 7,800 rights in Colorado, established between 1852 and 2013 includes location, date, size, infrastructure investment, irrigated acreage, crops, topography, stream flow, soil quality, and precipitation. Prior appropriation doubled infrastructure investment and raised the value of agricultural output beyond baseline riparian rights. The analysis reveals institutional innovation that informs contemporary water policy.

Download or read book Taking Groundwater written by Dave Owen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February, 2012, in a case called Edwards Aquifer Authority v. Day, the Texas Supreme Court held that landowners hold property rights to the groundwater beneath their land, and that a regulatory restriction on groundwater use could constitute a taking of private property. The decision provoked strong reactions, both positive and negative, throughout the world of water law, for it signaled the possibility of severe restrictions on groundwater use regulation. This Article considers the deeper issue that confronted the Texas Supreme Court, and that has confronted other courts across the country: how should the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment, and parallel clauses of state constitutions, apply to groundwater use regulation? Initially, this Article explains why this issue is exceedingly and increasingly important. It then reviews all of the groundwater/takings decisions from federal and state courts in the United States. Finally, the Article considers the implications of foundational property theories for the application of takings doctrine to groundwater use. The analysis leads to several key conclusions. Most importantly, it undermines arguments for granting groundwater use rights heightened protection against regulatory takings. Recently, litigants and commentators skeptical of government regulatory authority have widely advanced those arguments. But they find no support in past groundwater/takings caselaw, and no property theory justifies adopting such an approach. That does not mean that groundwater use rights should not qualify for constitutional protection. Despite some recent arguments to the contrary, such treatment is grounded in precedent and is appropriate. The Article therefore concludes that application of a relatively mainstream version of takings doctrine, which treats groundwater rights as property but allows substantial government regulation of groundwater use, is both the most traditional and the most theoretically justifiable approach.

Download or read book Who Should be Allowed to Sell Water in California written by Ellen Hanak and published by Public Policy Instit. of CA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although significant water trading has occurred in California since the drought of the early 1990s, many localities have restricted water transfers because of the perceived harm to other users and the local economy. In Who Should Be Allowed to Sell Water in California? Third-Party Issues and the Water Market, Ellen Hanak examines water transfers in California, local resistance to them, and various approaches to resolving water disputes. Drawing on a new database of water transfers as well as interviews with state, county, and water district officials, the report calls for water management at the local level that balances the interests of other residents and the potential gains from transfers.

Download or read book Quantitative analysis of groundwater potential written by T. G. Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Selected Water Resources Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Water Allocations and Entitlements written by G. K. Claydon and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Global Diagnostic on Groundwater Governance written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report aims at integrating regional and country experiences and projects with regard to viable groundwater management practices for the future. It compiles and translates best available present scientific and technical knowledge on groundwater resources and their governance, which is often highly specialized, into simpler language and synoptic representations, accessible to a large public of policy and decision makers across development sectors. It serves as a technical basis for the visioning process, and for the definition of the Framework for Action on groundwater governance.This is one of 3 outputs of project GCP/GLO/277/GEF expected to be published under the names of its 5 partner organizations and widely circulated to policy and decision-makers in countries, as well as other stakeholders of groundwater governance and practionners around the world. This outputs provides the technical basis for the other two: A Global Vision for Groundwater Governance 2030 and Global Framework for Action to Achieve the Vision on Groundwater Governance.

Download or read book Tradable Water Rights written by Paul Holden and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In most countries, the state owns the water and hydraulic infrastructure, and public officials decide who gets water rights, how the water is to be used, and how much will be charged for its use. The authors of this paper compare administered systems of water allocation with a system of tradable water rights, and argue that water allocation by administrative edict has resulted in costly, large-scale inefficiencies in the supply and use of water, even with an adequate institutional framework. Secure property rights, on the other hand, have been shown to have a powerful positive effect on investment and efficiency, although only a few countries have tried to take advantage of the allocative efficiencies of a market to assign water resources among users. The authors argue that in order to ensure implementation of an effective water market system, attention should be paid to: (i) ensuring stakeholder participation in designing and implementing the new legislation; (ii) deciding on new rules for the initial allocation of rights and for how new rights should be allocated; (iii) establishing a public registry and block titling; (iv) setting up or strengthening water user associations; (v) protecting against the development of potential monopolies; (vi) ensuring that trades do not infringe on the water rights of existing users; and (vii) establishing appropriate environmental laws.

Download or read book Giannini Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Integrated Groundwater Management written by Anthony J Jakeman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to document for the first time the dimensions and requirements of effective integrated groundwater management (IGM). Groundwater management is a formidable challenge, one that remains one of humanity’s foremost priorities. It has become a largely non-renewable resource that is overexploited in many parts of the world. In the 21st century, the issue moves from how to simply obtain the water we need to how we manage it sustainably for future generations, future economies, and future ecosystems. The focus then becomes one of understanding the drivers and current state of the groundwater resource, and restoring equilibrium to at-risk aquifers. Many interrelated dimensions, however, come to bear when trying to manage groundwater effectively. An integrated approach to groundwater necessarily involves many factors beyond the aquifer itself, such as surface water, water use, water quality, and ecohydrology. Moreover, the science by itself can only define the fundamental bounds of what is possible; effective IGM must also engage the wider community of stakeholders to develop and support policy and other socioeconomic tools needed to realize effective IGM. In order to demonstrate IGM, this book covers theory and principles, embracing: 1) an overview of the dimensions and requirements of groundwater management from an international perspective; 2) the scale of groundwater issues internationally and its links with other sectors, principally energy and climate change; 3) groundwater governance with regard to principles, instruments and institutions available for IGM; 4) biophysical constraints and the capacity and role of hydroecological and hydrogeological science including water quality concerns; and 5) necessary tools including models, data infrastructures, decision support systems and the management of uncertainty. Examples of effective, and failed, IGM are given. Throughout, the importance of the socioeconomic context that connects all effective IGM is emphasized. Taken as a whole, this work relates the many facets of effective IGM, from the catchment to global perspective.

Download or read book Water Code written by Texas and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: