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The Impacts of Water Pricing and Non-Pricing Policies on Sustainable Water Resources Management: A Case of Ghorveh Plain at Kurdistan Province, Iran
- Source :
- Energies, Volume 12, Issue 14, Energies, Vol 12, Iss 14, p 2667 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019.
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Abstract
- As with other regions of Iran, due to excessive extraction of groundwater for intense agricultural activity, Ghorveh plain, a water-scarce irrigation district in the west of Iran, has faced a serious water crisis during the last decade. The present study investigates the impacts of two scenario policies, namely, non-price policy (as a supply-oriented policy) and water pricing policies (as a demand-oriented policy) on agricultural sector of Ghorveh Plain, using positive mathematical programming (PMP). The model was calibrated by using farm-level data for the crop years in 2016&ndash<br />2017. Our findings indicate that applying water supply constraint policy will change the land use and cropping pattern to the crops with higher water productivity. The increase of water resource constraints can lead to the increase of water economic return which indicates a rising value of water resources shortage, warning the producers of the agriculture sector to allocate water to the crops with higher economic value under the water resources shortage conditions. In addition, the findings underline that in a situation where the price of irrigation water is low due to the low elasticity of water demand in the agriculture sector, formulating the economic instruments such as rising water prices does not solely suffice to achieve sustainable water resource management. However, mixed scenarios emphasized that the water distribution policies should be aligned with the increases in water cost.
- Subjects :
- Control and Optimization
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Natural resource economics
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Water supply
010501 environmental sciences
lcsh:Technology
01 natural sciences
Water scarcity
groundwater
pricing
Agricultural policy
agricultural policy
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Engineering (miscellaneous)
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Land use
lcsh:T
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
Water pricing
Irrigation district
Water resources
Agriculture
business
positive mathematical programming
Energy (miscellaneous)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19961073
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Energies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....105b3fb51178a2413551c3418197de9e
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/en12142667