Water rights: a comparison of the impacts of urban and irrigation reforms in Australia

Crase, Lin; Dollery, Brian

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8489.2006.00358.x

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“…Usually, these positive economic effects are largely explained by the expansion of more efficient new water users, the adoption of water conserving technologies and the elimination of unnecessary or non-cost-effective uses of water (Zilberman & Schoengold, 2005). Indeed, in empirical terms, researchers have shown that water markets have made significant income contributions to many regional and national economies, such as Spain (Lee & Jouravlev, 1998), Australia (Peterson et al, 2004;Crase & Dollery, 2006;Brooks & Harris, 2008;Qureshi et al, 2009) and the United States (Bjornlund & McKay, 2002;Grafton et al, 2012).…”

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Water management problems in the Copiapó Basin, Chile: markets, severe scarcity and the regulator

Bitrán

Rivera-Dı́az-del-Castillo²,

Villena

2014

Water Policy

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This research focuses on the determination of the factors that led to the failure of water management in the Copiapó Basin in Chile. Interestingly, the existence of full private ownership and free tradability of water rights has not prevented the overexploitation of groundwater resources. In the paper, firstly, water regulation and the role of the regulator in Chile are briefly discussed. Secondly, the evolution of water resources in the Copiapó region is characterized and analyzed, and the granting of water use rights in the basin in the last 30 years is concisely described. Thirdly, we examine and analyze prices and quantities traded in the water market of the Copiapó region. We will argue that this crisis is a consequence first of failure in regulatory implementation and second of an extremely rigid regulatory framework that leaves limited room for adjustment to changing conditions, especially regarding the emergence of new information concerning water availability. We believe this investigation is not only relevant for this case in particular, but also for other regions and countries where water markets are in place.

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confidence: 98%

Water management problems in the Copiapó Basin, Chile: markets, severe scarcity and the regulator

Bitrán

Rivera-Dı́az-del-Castillo²,

Villena

2014

Water Policy

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“…Such subdivision highlights how attributes of rights may be adjusted separately along various dimensions, specifying rights (and implicitly leaving other attributes of rights undefined). As was shown by Challen [3] and Crase and Dollery [27], this deconstruction can also be applied to water rights. In order to keep the size of the CR experiment within manageable proportions only the most relevant dimensions for the case of South Africa were included.…”

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Willingness to pay for water and water rights definition: study among smallholder irrigators in Limpopo province, South Africa

Speelman

D’Haese

Frija

et al. 2009

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Internationally there is growing understanding that water rights are important and that a lack of effective water rights systems creates major problems for the management of increasingly scarce water supplies. In South Africa the smallholder irrigation sector faces two major challenges. Firstly water use is inefficient and secondly government, which in the past invested huge amounts of money in the sector, targets improved cost recovery. Improving the definition of the water rights system can have a positive effect with regard to these challenges. At one hand improvements in the definition of water rights can stimulate smallholders to use water more productively, encouraging cooperation and investment; at the other hand an improved water rights system increases willingness to pay for water, allowing government to charge higher water prices and thus improve cost recovery. This study proposes contingent ranking to analyse the willingness to pay of smallholder irrigators for changes in the water rights system. Results indicate that smallholders are prepared to pay considerably higher water prices if these prices are connected with advancements in the water rights system. In a second step the sample population was stratified to evaluate the impact of smallholder characteristics on their willingness to pay. The groups. For example farmers suffering water shortages attach more importance to secure water supply. Policy makers can use such results to guide reforms in the design of water rights and to increase public support for interventions.

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“…Removing impediments to rural–urban water transfers increases the choice of supply augmentation options and economic efficiency as water is transferred to a higher marginal value (Crase & Dollery, ; Quiggin, ; Productivity Commission, , ). Water grids and interconnecting pipelines can contribute to effective inter‐sectoral water transfers.…”

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Institutional Reforms to Enhance Urban Water Infrastructure with Climate Change Uncertainty

Ananda

2014

J of App Econs and Policy

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Climate change adds another layer of uncertainty to the complex issue of urban water infrastructure provision. Current institutional configurations surrounding infrastructure investments are deemed inflexible and ill‐equipped to deal with climate uncertainty. This paper evaluates the regulatory and planning frameworks surrounding the urban water infrastructure provision in Victoria. Regulatory inflexibility, lack of clarity in the objectives of the water agencies and opaque supply augmentation policies constrain water businesses from making flexible infrastructure decisions. Future reforms need to focus on clarifying roles and objectives of water agencies, removing barriers to supply augmentation options including inter‐sectoral transfers and a regulatory model that embeds flexibility in infrastructure decision processes.

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Water rights: a comparison of the impacts of urban and irrigation reforms in Australia

Cited by 22 publications

References 9 publications

Water management problems in the Copiapó Basin, Chile: markets, severe scarcity and the regulator

Water management problems in the Copiapó Basin, Chile: markets, severe scarcity and the regulator

Willingness to pay for water and water rights definition: study among smallholder irrigators in Limpopo province, South Africa

Institutional Reforms to Enhance Urban Water Infrastructure with Climate Change Uncertainty

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