Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/155099 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 45. 2000
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
This paper develops a spatial model for a water basin that allows for surface water allocation and re-use of the water that is lost. The analytical solution suggests specialisation of production over space - upstream farmers use canal water and downstream farmers pump groundwater that is lost upstream. Groundwater emerges as an endogenous "backstop." The empirical results suggest that when traditional conservation technologies are used, optimisation over the entire basin leads to significant increases in aggregate output, project area and water use. Somewhat counter-intuitively, rents from water decrease if farmers switch from traditional to modern irrigation technology.
Subjects: 
Water allocation
spatial models
conjunctive use
irrigation technology
JEL: 
Q25
Q15
R30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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