This paper provides an overview and synthesis of China's irrigation water pricing policies. The history of China's agricultural water policies is reviewed in order to provide a context and background for discussions of current policy issues. The methods on how agricultural water prices are determined, applied and collected, are described. The paper concludes by discussing a series of issues that confound further reform and the effectiveness of pricing policies in promoting water conservation and farmers' capacity to adapt to higher water prices.
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