How Do Price Surcharges Impact Water Utility Financial Incentives to Pursue Alternative Supplies during Drought?

Zeff, Harrison B.; Characklis, Gregory W.; Thurman, Walter N.

doi:10.1061/(asce)wr.1943-5452.0001228

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“…The prices of irrigation water being too cheap [52] and the inexperience of LSIU smallholder farmers in the study area [21] could be the potential reason for the inefficiency of LSIU smallholder farmers as compared to the SSIU and NU farmers. Introducing appropriate irrigation water prices could increase the economic efficiency of LSIU smallholder farmers while also mitigating some lost revenue [52,53]. Therefore, by introducing appropriate irrigation water prices and adopting best practices of efficient smallholder farmers and/or operating at optimal scales, the output of LSIU, SSIU and NU farmers could be increased, on average, by 79%, 40% and 53.5%, respectively.…”

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Agricultural Technical Efficiency of Smallholder Farmers in Ethiopia: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

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Tenessa

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In the past decade, to improve crop production and productivity, Ethiopia has embarked on an ambitious irrigation farming expansion program and has introduced new large- and small-scale irrigation initiatives. However, in Ethiopia, poverty remains a challenge, and crop productivity per unit area of land is very low. Literature on the technical efficiency (TE) of large-scale and small-scale irrigation user farmers as compared to the non-user farmers in Ethiopia is also limited. Investigating smallholder farmers’ technical efficiency (TE) level and its principal determinants is very important to increase crop production and productivity and to improve smallholder farmers’ livelihood and food security. Using 1026 household-level cross-section data, this study adopts a technology flexible stochastic frontier approach to examine agricultural TE of large-scale irrigation users, small-scale irrigation users and non-user farmers in Ethiopia. The results indicate that, due to poor extension services and old-style agronomic practices, the mean TE of farmers is very low (44.33%), implying that there is a wider room for increasing crop production in the study areas through increasing the TE of smallholder farmers without additional investment in novel agricultural technologies. Results also show that large-scale irrigation user farmers (21.05%) are less technically efficient than small-scale irrigation user farmers (60.29%). However, improving irrigation infrastructure shifts the frontier up and has a positive impact on smallholder farmers’ output.

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Section: Econometric Results Of the Technical (In) Efficiency Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agricultural Technical Efficiency of Smallholder Farmers in Ethiopia: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

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Tenessa

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“…Given the important role of water and its scarcity, researchers focus on water conservation strategies, so as to optimize water supply portfolios (Fraga et al 2017 ). Well-known strategies such as financial incentives and political mandates fail to encourage water conservation in water-consumption scenarios (Zeff et al 2020 ). Therefore, researchers aim to provide solutions for water management from the supply-side and demand-side.…”

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Scarcity in today´s consumer markets: scoping the research landscape by author keywords

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Teichert

2022

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Scarcity refers to not having enough of what one needs. This phenomenon has shaped individuals´ life since ancient times, nowadays ranging from daily-life scarcity cues in shopping scenarios to the planet’s resources scarcity to meet the world´s consumer demand. Because of this ubiquity of scarcity, the topic has been attracting attention from scholars and practitioners in different areas. Studies regarding scarcity were conducted across disciplines, based on different assumptions, and focused on distinct study subjects. A lack of mainstream about this topic hindered the convergence of core ideas among different schools of thought. In this article, we take an integrative socio-economic perspective to join diverse findings on scarcity affecting consumer markets, identify topic-specific research questions still to be answered, and provide suggestions for future and integrative research opportunities. A systematic review based on author keywords from 855 publications analyzing scarcity affecting business-consumer interactions serves as a database. Exploratory factor analyses based on author keywords identify shared patterns within and linkages across discourses stemming from various disciplines and theories. Results differentiate distinct research foci in the consumer behavior, socio-political, and other disciplinary research realms. A mapping of these research themes identifies the scarcity-related interplay among consumers, producers, and other stakeholders. Findings point out research directions for future studies at both the research realm level and the interdisciplinary level.

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“…For example, drought response water restrictions during the summer of 2013 decreased Denver Water's operating revenue by 13% ($37 million) relative to original fiscal year projections (Denver Water, 2016). Reduced revenue during droughts affects a utility's ability to recover its mostly fixed costs, potentially leading to lower credit ratings and higher bond financing rates (H. Zeff et al, 2020). In turn, this increases the cost of capital required for routine maintenance and infrastructure improvements (Dilling et al, 2019).…”

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Dry landscapes and parched economies: A review of how drought impacts nonagricultural socioeconomic sectors in the US Intermountain West

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From hampering the ability of water utilities to fill their reservoirs to leaving forests parched and ready to burn, drought is a unique natural hazard that impacts many human and natural systems. A great deal of research and synthesis to date has been devoted to understanding how drought conditions harm agricultural operations, leaving other drought‐vulnerable sectors relatively under‐served. This review aims to fill in such gaps by synthesizing literature from a diverse array of scientific fields to detail how drought impacts nonagricultural sectors of the economy: public water supply, recreation and tourism, forest resources, and public health. We focus on the Intermountain West region of the United States, where the decadal scale recurrence of severe drought provides a basis for understanding the causal linkages between drought conditions and impacts. This article is categorized under: Human Water > Value of Water Science of Water > Water Extremes

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How Do Price Surcharges Impact Water Utility Financial Incentives to Pursue Alternative Supplies during Drought?

Cited by 7 publications

References 38 publications

Agricultural Technical Efficiency of Smallholder Farmers in Ethiopia: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

Agricultural Technical Efficiency of Smallholder Farmers in Ethiopia: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

Scarcity in today´s consumer markets: scoping the research landscape by author keywords

Dry landscapes and parched economies: A review of how drought impacts nonagricultural socioeconomic sectors in the US Intermountain West

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