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List of contents
Foreword -- Preface -- Thematic Overview of the Conserve-and-Transfer Strategy of Water Management -- Institutional Framework for Agricultural Water Conservation and Reallocation in the West: A Policy Analysis -- Introduction and Context -- Variety, Diversity, and Complexity -- Opportunities for Water Conservation -- Institutional Arrangements by the State, Regional and National Levels -- Conclusions -- Factors Underlying Irrigation Efficiency in the Tulare Basin of California -- Introduction -- Water Use Efficiency in Concept and in Context -- Policies and Programs of State and Federal Agencies -- Perceptions and Practices of Farmers, Water Districts and Technical Advisors -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- The Navajo Indian Irrigation Project: A Study of Legal, Political, and Cultural Conflict -- A Willingness to Play: Analysis of Water Resources Development in Arizona -- Introduction -- Rules of the Game -- Physical Description of the Central Arizona Project -- Political Background of the CAP -- Water Economics on the Farm -- Farmers' Attitudes About the Central Arizona Project: 1979 -- Conclusions -- Water Reallocation, Market Proficiency, and Conflicting Social Values -- Water Reallocation– The Public Environment -- Market Proficiency -- Legal Restrictions on the Sale of Conserved Surplus -- Conflicting Values: Arizona -- Conflicting Values: New Mexico -- Conflicting Values: Colorado -- Conflicting Values: Utah -- Summary and Conclusions -- Market Proficiency Questionnaire
About the author
Gary Weatherford is director of the Water Program at the Center for Natural Resource Studies of the John Muir Institute. Lee Brown is associate professor of economics at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Helen Ingram is professor of government at the University of Arizona. Dean Mann is professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Summary
This book analyzes the economic and social issues involved in a "conserve-and-transfer" strategy in Western U.S. and illustrates how reallocation occurs in market transactions. It also analyzes the potential for meeting future water demands by inducing greater efficiency in irrigated agriculture.
