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Water in the western United States is essentially fully allocated; thus water for new demands must come from reallocation of existing supplies. Since over 80% of the water withdrawals in the west are for agriculture, potential reallocation mechanisms and the economic impact of reallocation require knowledge of the economic demand for irrigation water. Knowledge of the economic demand for irrigation water is also needed to evaluate: 1) Water-use impacts of shifts in evapotranspiration and precipitation resulting from climate change. 2) Water-supply engineering projects such as building new storage or constructing aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) infrastructure. 3) Water-management options such as: a) water marketing b) ground-water banking c) buyout of irrigation water rights d) pricing mechanisms designed to encourage conservation 4) Water-use impact of the current unprecedented increase in agricultural commodity prices. The spreadsheet tool IRRIGATION DEMAND CALCULATOR is designed for economic practitioners who need to obtain an equation for aggregate demand for irrigation water, under conditions of limited time and/or data and resources. The Tool finds a middle ground between approaches that require large amounts of data and approaches that have restrictive assumptions.

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Irrigation demand calculator: spreadsheet tool for estimating economic demand for irrigation water. Technical report 200803
Authors:
Contor, Bryce A.; Taylor, Garth; Moore, Greg L.
Date Created (ISO Standard):
2008-08
Description:
Water in the western United States is essentially fully allocated; thus water for new demands must come from reallocation of existing supplies. Since over 80% of the water withdrawals in the west are for agriculture, potential reallocation mechanisms and the economic impact of reallocation require knowledge of the economic demand for irrigation water. Knowledge of the economic demand for irrigation water is also needed to evaluate: 1) Water-use impacts of shifts in evapotranspiration and precipitation resulting from climate change. 2) Water-supply engineering projects such as building new storage or constructing aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) infrastructure. 3) Water-management options such as: a) water marketing b) ground-water banking c) buyout of irrigation water rights d) pricing mechanisms designed to encourage conservation 4) Water-use impact of the current unprecedented increase in agricultural commodity prices. The spreadsheet tool IRRIGATION DEMAND CALCULATOR is designed for economic practitioners who need to obtain an equation for aggregate demand for irrigation water, under conditions of limited time and/or data and resources. The Tool finds a middle ground between approaches that require large amounts of data and approaches that have restrictive assumptions.
Subjects:
Irrigation Water supply Evapotranspiration Water management Economic efficiency Computer models
Collection:
Boise Basin
IWRRI number:
200803
Rights:
Rights to the digital resource are held by the University of Idaho. http://www.uidaho.edu/
Publisher:
Idaho Water Resources Research Institute; University of Idaho
Contributing Institution:
University of Idaho
Type:
Text
Format:
application/pdf
Cataloger:
KIT

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