A socially optimum pricing policy for a public water agency
作者:
Gardner Brown,
C. B. McGuire,
期刊:
Water Resources Research
(WILEY Available online 1967)
卷期:
Volume 3,
issue 1
页码: 33-43
ISSN:0043-1397
年代: 1967
DOI:10.1029/WR003i001p00033
关键词: Economics;water management;water resources
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
A simple model is developed for determining the socially optimum price to charge locationally differentiated irrigation districts for both surface and groundwater supplies. Steady‐state conditions are assumed for groundwater conditions and water demand functions. A divergence between social and private optimums arises from the existence of unadjudicated rights to groundwater supplies. The social optimum can be achieved by an appropriately conceived taxing policy. Water prices, tax rates, and optimum lift levels are estimated for seven irrigation districts, members of a master water agenc
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