Water Marketing

by Anderson, Terry L.; Hill, Peter Jensen; Thompson, Barton H., Jr. (CON); Huffman, James L. (CON); Haddock, David D. (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780847683987
• ISBN10: 0847683982
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

Unified by their desire to produce innovative solutions to the problem of allocating fresh water, the prominent contributors to Water Marketing argue that government regulations inadvertently encourage the waste of our most vital resource by preventing the evolution of property rights to water marketing. This volume offers insightful public policy alternatives to water marketing that will stimulate a rethinking of traditional policies.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Taking the Plunge
Water Markets and the Problem of Shifting Paradigms	p. 1
Institutional Constraints on Transboundary Water Marketing	p. 31
Must Water Regulation Be Centralized?	p. 43
Water Rights Regulation, Political Incentives, and Federalism	p. 63
Increasing Efficiency in Water Markets: Examples from the Western United States	p. 79
Interstate Marketing of Central Arizona Project Water: Law, Economics, and Politics	p. 101
Transborder Water Trading among the Australian States	p. 127
Environmental Quality, Biological Envelopes, and River Basin Markets for Water Quality	p. 147
Protecting the Edwards Aquifer: An Efficient and Ecological Alternative	p. 167
Index	p. 191
About the Political Economy Forum and the Authors	p. 197
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