W5190: Management and Policy Challenges in a Water-Uncertain World

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03/31/2025

 


California 


Medellin-Azuara, J., Escriva-Bou, A., Gaudin, A., Schwabe, K. and Sumner, D. 2024. "Cultivating Climate Resilience in California Agriculture: Adaptations to an Increasingly Volatile Water Future.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2310079121.





Kansas 


Gardner, Grant, and Gabriel S. Sampson. 2024. "Groundwater quality vs. groundwater quantity. Combining information on irrigator concerns with past water use and cropping behavior." Water Resources and Economics 47: 100246.


Sampson, G. S., Aguilar, J., Baldwin, C., Davidson, J., and Mehl, H. 2024. Water Management and Information Gaps in the High Plains Aquifer. Journal of the ASFMRA, 2024:116-129.


Orduña Alegría, Maria Elena, Sam Zipper, Hoon C. Shin, Jillian M. Deines, Nathan P. Hendricks, Jonah J. Allen, Geoffrey C. Bohling, et al. 2024. “Unlocking Aquifer Sustainability through Irrigator-Driven Groundwater Conservation.” Nature Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01437-0


Zhao, J., N.P. Hendricks, and H. Li. 2024. “Groundwater Institutions in the Face of Global Climate Change” Annual Review of Resource Economics 16:125-141. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-resource-101623-100909


Perez-Quesada, G., N.P. Hendricks, and D.R. Steward. 2024. “The Economic Cost of Groundwater Depletion in the High Plains Aquifer.” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 11(2): 253-285. https://doi.org/10.1086/726156


Hrozencik, R.A., J.F. Suter, P.J. Ferraro, and N. Hendricks. 2024. “Social Comparisons and Groundwater Use: Evidence from Colorado and Kansas.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 106(2): 946-966. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12415


Louisiana 


Lisk, M. D., Grogan, D. S., Zuidema, S., Zheng, J., Caccese, R., Peklak, D., ... & Fowler, L. (2024). Harmonized Database of Western US Water Rights (HarDWR) v. 1. Scientific Data, 11(1), 598.





Michigan 


M.A. Askar, E. Ghane, M.A. Youssef, V.S. Shedekar, K.W. King, R. Bhattarai. 2024. Feasibility of predicting subsurface drainage discharge with DRAINMOD parameterized by uncalibrated SURRGO soil properties and ROSETTA3. Journal of Natural Resources and Agricultural Ecosystems. 22, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.13031/jnrae.15735


Masri, Z., J. Asher, and J. R. Piwarski. 2024. Reduction of Nitrate Leaching and Threats to Surface Water Under Conservation Tillage. Journal of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 67(3): 573-588. doi: 10.13031/ja.15533 


O'Neil, G., Miller, S., Dempsey, D., Flaga, C., & Mann, J. (2024). Institutional Controls for Groundwater Management: Long Terms Costs and Policy Impacts. Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy – Office of the Great Lakes Award GL21-MSU-01.


Kropp, I., A. P. Nejadhashemi, K. Deb, 2024. Improved Evolutionary Operators for Sparse Large-Scale Multi-objective Optimization Problems, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 8(2): 460-473.


Deb, K., A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi, G. Toscano, H. Razavi, L. Linker, 2024. Leveraging innovization and transfer learning to optimize best management practices in large-scale watershed management, Journal of Environmental Modelling and Software, 180: 106161.


Kpodo, J, P. Kordjamshidi, A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi, AgXQA: A Benchmark for Advanced Agricultural Extension Question Answering, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 225: 109349.


Sarkar, Sampriti, Preet Lal, Molly Sears, Frank Lupi. (2024) “Evaluating the impact of fertilizer and crop prices on phosphorus concentrations in Great Lakes watersheds.” Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaa2.145





Mississippi 


Quintana-Ashwell, N. E., Al-Sudani, A., & Gholson, D. M. (2024). The cost of mismanaging crop heat stress with irrigation: Evidence from the mid-south USA. Agricultural Water Management, 300, 108907.


 


Roberts, C., Gholson, D., Quintana Ashwell, N. E., Locke, M., Pieralisi, B., Spencer, G., Crow, W., Krutz, L. J (2025). Economic implications of reduced tillage and cover crops in the irrigated mid-South. Agronomy Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/agj2.70034.


 


Russell, D., Singh, G., Quintana-Ashwell, N., Kaur, G., Gholson, D., Krutz, L. J., & Nelson, K. A. (2024). Cover crops and irrigation impacts on corn production and economic returns. Agricultural Water Management, 295, 108739.





Oklahoma 


 


Lambert, DM, LH Lambert, J Ripberger, H Jankins-Smith, & CL Silva. (2024) Public support for producer adoption of soil health practices. Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-024-10660-6


Welch, KL, DM Lambert, LH Lambert, & A Hagerman. (2024). The effects of disaster relief insurance on drought impacts: a case study of southwest Oklahoma. Review of Regional Studies 54, 215-240. 


 


Tennessee (Perez Quesada)


 


Perez-Quesada, G., Hendricks, N.P., Tack, J. and Steward, D.R. 2024. Adapting crop production to water scarcity. Environmental Research Letters, 20(1), p.014029.


 


Texas (Wilcox, Dominguez, Rouhi Rad)


 


Nozari, S., Bailey, R.T., Rad, M.R., Smith, G.E., Andales, A.A., Zambreski, Z.T., Tavakoli-Kivi, S., Sharda, V., Kisekka, I., Gowda, P. and Schipanski, M.E., 2024. An Integrated Modeling Approach to Simulate Human-Crop-Groundwater Interactions in Intensively Irrigated Regions. Environmental Modelling & Software, p.106120.


 


Guerrero, V.L., Sahoo, D., Dickes, L., Walker, T., Rouhi Rad, M. and Allen, J., 2024. Adap-


tive Water Governance in an Interest-Based Stakeholder-Driven Water Resource Planning Institution in South Carolina, US. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 150(6), p.05024004.


 

10/10/2025

California (Dinar, Mahajan, Edwards, Ying, Nemati, Schwabe, D'odorico)



  • Medellin-Azuara, J., Escriva-Bou, A., Gaudin, A., Schwabe, K. and Sumner, D. 2024. "Cultivating Climate Resilience in California Agriculture: Adaptations to an Increasingly Volatile Water Future.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2310079121

  • Schwabe, K. 2025. Book Review: Science Be Dammed: How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River (by E. Kuhn and J. Fleck).  https://doi.org/10.1142/S2382624X25800025

  • Crespo D., M. Nemati, A. Dinar, Z. Frankel, N. Halberg, 2025. Assessing the Economic Value of Water in the Colorado River Basin: A Hydro-economic Analysis. Water Resources & Economics, Volume 52, 100266), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wre.2025.100266.  

  • Avila, P., M. Nemati, D. Crespo, A. Dinar, Z. Frankel, N. Halberg, 2025. Public Spending and Water Scarcity: An Empirical Analysis of USBR Investments in the Colorado River Ba-sin. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA), https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.70042. 

  • Kishore, S., M. Nemati, A. Dinar, C. L. Struthers, S. MacKenzie, M. S. Shugart, 2025. Cli-mate-Induced Changes in Agricultural Land Use: Parcel-level Evidence from California’s Cen-tral Valley. Climatic Change 178, 59. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-025-03905-8. 

  • Crespo, D., M. Nemati, A. Dinar, Z. Frankel, and N. Halberg, Developing a Decision Sup-port Model to Assess the Value of Cooperation Benefits Under Climate Change: Case of the Colorado River Basin in the United States. In: Shahbazbegian, M. and A. Dinar (Eds.), Shahbazbegian, M. and A. Dinar (Eds.), Decision Support Models to Assist International Transboundary Water Negotiations: Methodologies and Applications. Oxford University Press (Forthcoming, January 2026), Chapter 8.

  • Dinar, A. and R. Mendelsohn, Introduction. In: Dinar, A. and R. Mendelsohn (Eds.), Handbook on Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation, and Adaptation in Agriculture, Edward Elgar Publishers: Cheltenham, U.K. (Forthcoming, March 2026). Chapter 1.

  • Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in the Agricultural Sector of the Colorado River Basin: A Hydro-economic Analysis, Crespo, D., M. Nemati, A. Dinar, Z. Frankel, and N. Halberg. In: Dinar, A. and R. Mendelsohn (Eds.), Handbook on Climate Change Impacts, Mitiga-tion, and Adaptation in Agriculture, Edward Elgar Publishers: Cheltenham, U.K. (Forth-coming, March 2026). Chapter 12.

  • Mendelsohn, R. and A. Dinar, Conclusions of the Handbook on Climate Change Impacts, Miti-gation, and Adaptation in Agriculture, and Lessons Learned. In: Dinar, A. and R. Mendel-sohn (Eds.), Handbook on Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation, and Adaptation in Ag-riculture, Edward Elgar Publishers: Cheltenham, U.K. (Forthcoming, March 2026). Chapter 23.

  • Pellaton, P., J. P. Colner, A. Cohen, C. Struthers, S. Kishore, S. A. MacKenzie, M. S. Shugart, M. Nemati and A. Dinar, Legislative Responsiveness to Climate Change: Politically-driven Adaptation in California’s Agricultural Sector. In: Dinar, A. and R. Mendelsohn (Eds.), Handbook on Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation, and Adaptation in Agriculture, Ed-ward Elgar Publishers: Cheltenham, U.K. (Forthcoming, March 2026). Chapter 21.

  • Crespo, D., M. Nemati, A. Dinar, Z. Frankel, and N. Halberg. 2025. “Sharing Colorado River Water: A View from Southern California.” ARE Update 28(4): 5–8. University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. https://giannini.ucop.edu/filer/file/1746023594/21275/. 

  • Avila, P., M. Nemati, D. Crespo, A.Dinar, Z. Frankel, N. Halberg. 2025.“Funding the Flow: Federal Water Conservation Investments in the Colorado River Basin.” ARE Update 28(4): 9–11. University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. https://giannini.ucop.edu/filer/file/1746023869/21276/.


Georgia (Mullen, Hrozencik)



  • Hopson, M.,  J. D. Mullen, G. Colson, and L. Fowler. 2025.  “Impact of Terminology and Water Restrictions on Consumer Willingness to Pay for Potable Recycled Water in the U.S.,” Environmental Science & Technology 59 (13), 6534-6542 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.4c12023



  • Mullen, Jeffrey D., and Mary Katherine Rubin*. 2024. "A Rapid Assessment Technique for Identifying Future Water Use and Pesticide Risks Due to Changing Cropping Patterns" Sustainability 16, no. 11: 4853. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16114853



  • Hrozencik, A., Perez-Quesada, G., and Donahue, H2. 2025. The Development and Current Challenges of Irrigated Agriculture in the Western U.S. Agricultural Water Management, 315, p.109474. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2025.109474



  • Sloggy, M. R., Hrozencik, R. A., Manning, D. T., Goemans, C. G., & Claassen, R. L. (2025). Insurance and extraction incentives in a common pool resource: Evidence from groundwater use in the high plains. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 130, 103125.



  • Ward, F. A., Potter, N. A., & Hrozencik, R. A. (2025). Managing agricultural water use in the Western United States: A search for efficient climate adaptation institutions. Agricultural Water Management, 308, 109279.


 


Idaho (Maas)



  • Fuller, K. B., Adhikari, K., Crants, J., Frost, K., Gudmestad, N., Maas, A., ... & Stasko, A. (2025). The economic performance of soil health practices in potato production systems. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 40, e7.



  • Parajuli, S., Maas, A., Tejeda, H., Impact of Plastic Bag Regulations on Consumer Expenditure for Unregulated Plastic Disposal Bags.  Poster Winner at the Agricultural Economics Association annual Meeting, July 2025. 


 


Illinois (Bhattarai, Kalita)



  • Khan, M., Bhattarai, R., & Chen, L. (2025). Discerning the Elevated Risk of Compound Extreme Heat Stress Followed by Extreme Precipitation Events in the Socially Vulnerable Communities in the Upper Midwest. International Journal of Climatology, e8868.

  • Khan, M., Bhattarai, R., & Chen, L. (2025). Detecting temporal shifts in extreme precipitation regime, and the implications for urban locations and major crops in Illinois. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 70(2), 334-346.


 


Indiana (Gitau)



  • Gupta, V., S.M. Gruss, D. Cammarano, S.M. Brouder, P.A. Bermel, M.R. Tuinstra, M.W. Gitau, and R. Agrawal. 2024. Optimizing corn agrivoltaic farming through farm-scale experimentation and modeling. Cell Reports Sustainability 1(7), 100148. DOI: 10.1016/j.crsus.2024.100148.

  • Torres, C., M.W. Gitau, J. Lara-Borrero, D. Paredes-Cuervo, and B, Daher. 2024. Urban FEW Nexus Model for the Otun River Watershed. Water 16(23), 3405. https://doi.org/10.3390/w16233405


 


Kansas (Sampson, Hendricks, Cameron-Harp, Sorensen Montoya)



  • Edwards, E.C., Hendricks, N.P. & Sampson, G.S. (2025). The Capitalization of Property Rights to Groundwater. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 107(2): 390-410. https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fajae.12494

  • Cameron-Harp, M. V., & Hendricks, N. P. (2025). Efficiency and Water Use: Dynamic Effects of Irrigation Technology Adoption. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 12(2), 285–312. https://doi.org/10.1086/732140

  • Biram, H. D., Tack, J. & Cameron-Harp, M.V. 2025. “Measuring the Impact of Hurricane Incidence on Agricultural Production Risk Using Insurance Data.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 107(5): 1438–1456. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.70008

  • Perez-Quesada, Gabriela, Nathan P. Hendricks, Jesse Tack, and David R. Steward. 2024. “Adapting crop production to water scarcity.” Environmental Research Letters, 20: 014029. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad9abe

  • Pates, N.J., N.P. Hendricks, and T.J. Lark. 2025. “Misclassification Error in Remote Sensing Matters: The Effect of Ethanol Plants on Local Cropland Transitions” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 50(3): 467-486. https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.347706


 


Michigan (Asher, Giri, Nejadhashemi, Srivastava, Ghane, Sears)



  • Ashim Datta, Brook Wilke, Christine Charles, Marc Hasenick, Tayler Ulbrich, Maninder Singh, Molly Sears, and G. Philip Robertson. “Crop performance and profitability for the initial transition years of a regenerative cropping system in the Upper Midwest USA.” (2025) Journal of Environmental Quality http://doi.org/10.1002/jeq2.70084

  • Younsuk Dong, Stewart Tucker, Gurjeet Singh, Nawab Ali, Najme Yazdanpanah, Josh Vander Weide, Molly Sears. (2025) “Optimizing Soil Moisture Sensor Placement Through Spatial Variability Analysis in Orchards.” Smart Agricultural Technology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atech.2025.101273

  • Jalali, Jamshid, Nishan Bhattarai, Jillian Greene, Tao Liu, Oskar Marko, Mirjana Radulovic, Molly Sears, Sean A. Woznicki. (2025) “Climate change threatens water resources for major crops in Serbia’s Danube Basin by mid-21st century.” Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214581825002290

  • Kpodo, J, and  A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi, 2025. Navigating Challenges/Opportunities in Developing Smart Agricultural Extension Platforms: Data Source, Compilation, and Conversion, Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture, 15: 426-448.

  • Razavi, H. R., G. Toscano,, A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi, K. Deb, Lewis Linker, 2025. Next-Generation Techniques for Parameter Reduction in Water Resources Multiobjective Optimization, Environmental Modelling and Software, 193: 106651

  • Deb, K., A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi, G. Toscano, H. Razavi, and L. Linker, 2024. Leveraging innovization and transfer learning to optimize best management practices in large-scale watershed management, Journal of Environmental Modelling and Software, 180: 106161.

  • Ghane, E, Abdalaal, Y., Tehrani, A., 2025. Paired-field evaluation of a saturated buffer reveals significant water-quality benefits through upstream weir management. Agricultural Water Management. 109664. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2025.109664  

  • Dialameh, B., Ghane, E. Youssef. M. 2025. DRAINMOD predicted impact of climate change on hydrology, corn yield, and drainage design in the Western Lake Erie Basin, United States. Agricultural Water Management. 109641. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2025.109641  


 


Mississippi (Quintana Ashwell)



  • Roberts, C., Gholson, D., Quintana‐Ashwell, N., Locke, M., Pieralisi, B., Spencer, G. D., Crow, W., & Krutz, L. J. (2025). Economic implications of reduced tillage and cover crops in the irrigated mid‐South. Agronomy Journal, 117(2), e70034.

  • Oku, E., Quintana Ashwell, N., Yun, S., Curt Lacy, R., & Jason Krutz, L. (2025). Adoption timing of water conserving irrigation practices in the Mississippi Delta: An application of duration analysis. Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.


 


Montana (Hagerty)



  • Bruno, Ellen, and Nick Hagerty (2025). “Anticipatory Effects of Regulating the Commons.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 132: 103183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103183.

  • Bruno, Ellen, and Nick Hagerty (2025). “California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act: What Are Its Early Impacts?” ARE Update 28(4): 2-4. https://s.giannini.ucop.edu/uploads/pub/2025/04/30/v28n4.pdf


 


Nebraska (Rimsaite, Schoengold)


(Rimsaite)



(Schoengold)



  • Khanal, B., T. Mieno, K. Schoengold, and D.S. Bullock (2025) “Using Precision Conservation to Target Land Retirement: Incorporating spatially variable profit and crop insurance premiums” (Accepted for publication at Science of the Total Environment), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.179315.

  • Mavroutsikos, C., K. Schoengold, A. Yiannaka, S. Banerjee, K. Giannakas, and T. Awada (2025) “The Role of Spatially Varying Descriptive Norms on Public Valuation of Ecosystem Services Associated with Improved Soil Health: A Discrete Choice Experiment on Nudging” (Accepted for publication at Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics), DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.356159.

  • Spor Leal, L., T. Roy, D. Uden, K. Schoengold (2024) “Hydrological Impacts of the Conservation Reserve Program - A Mini Review”, Frontiers in Water, DOI: 10.3389/frwa.2024.1506255.

  • Jayasekera, D. H., Powers, C., Aiken, J. D., Schoengold, K., & Rimšaitė, R. (2024, September 15). Nitrate contamination in Nebraska’s drinking water. The Water Report, 247, 1–11. https://www.thewaterreport.com/current-issues/


 


Oklahoma (Jafarzadegan, Lambert)



  • Lambert, LH, Y Yao, & LR Levers (2025). Optimal cropping patterns and intertemporal groundwater usage under extraction constraints in Oklahoma’s Panhandle. Agricultural Water Management 313. DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2025.109472

  • Lambert, DM, B Golden, L Lambert, B Guererro (2025). The impacts of a local enhanced management area on groundwater use for crop production. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.358997

  •  Lambert, DM, LH Lambert, J Ripberger, H Jenkins-Smith, CL Silva (2025). Public support for producer adoption of soil health practices. Agriculture and Human Values 42(2): 1045-1061. DOI: 10.1007/s10460-024-10660-6


 


South Carolina (Jeong, Khedun)



  • Jeong, Dawoon; Scaroni, Amy E.; and Motallebi, Marzieh (2025) "Assessing Septic Service Availability and Pricing across Coastal South Carolina," Journal of South Carolina Water Resources: Vol. 10 : Iss. 1 , Article 2. Available at: https://open.clemson.edu/jscwr/vol10/iss1/2


 


Tennessee (Perez Quesada)



  • Hrozencik, A., Perez-Quesada, G., and Donahue, H2. 2025. The Development and Current Challenges of Irrigated Agriculture in the Western U.S. Agricultural Water Management, 315, p.109474. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2025.109474


 


Texas (Wilcox, Dominguez, Rouhi Rad)



  • Atalar, F., P. A. M. Leite*, and B. P. Wilcox. 2025. A comparison of three methodologies for determining soil infiltration capacity in thicketized oak woodlands and adjacent grasslands. Water 17:518.

  • Wang, H.-H., W. E. Grant, A. G. Birt, and B. P. Wilcox. 2025. Modeling rangelands as complex adaptive socio-ecological systems: An agent-based model of pyric herbivory. Ecological Modelling 501:111020.

  •  Kelly, A. R*., P. A. M. Leite, J. W. Walker, and B. P. Wilcox. 2025. Long-Term Legacy of Juniper Encroachment: Increased Infiltration and Reduced Compaction a Decade After Mortality. Rangeland Ecology & Management 103:71-77.

  • Leite, P. A. M. *, D. M. Rempe, K. J. McInnes, L. M. Schmidt, J. W. Walker, H. G. Olariu, and B. P. Wilcox. 2025. Trees Enhance Rock Moisture Storage: A Major Pool in Karst Drylands and Crucial During Droughts. Water Resources Research 61:e2024WR038692.

  • Olariu, H. G. *, B. P. Wilcox, and S. C. Popescu. 2025. Linking Woody Plants, Climate, and Evapotranspiration in a Temperate Savanna. EGUsphere 2025:1-35.

  • Bahrami, S., Rouhi Rad, M., and R. M. Nayga Jr., (2025). Dollars for Drops: Abatement Cost of Water for Irrigation in the Colorado River Basin. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, PP.1-16.

  • Rouhi Rad, M., Li, L., Woodward, R.T., (2025) Non-Market Valuation of Environmental Resources: An Introduction. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance

  • Busari, I., Sloggy, M.R., Rouhi Rad, M., Sahoo, D., Drury, S.A. and Escobedo, F.J., (2025). Modeling Wildfire Effects on Ecosystem Services in two Disparate California Watersheds and Communities. Environmental Management, pp.1-21


 


Washington (Cook, Yoder)



  • Basu, R., M. Brady, J. Cook, J. Gifford, K. Rajagopalan, and J. Yoder. “An agent-based model for assessing agricultural water market structure and function.” Water Resources and Economics, accepted Sept 2025.

  • Khan, R. A, M. Brady, B. Singh, M. Yourek, J. Yoder, J. Cook, G. Yorgey, and K. Rajagopalan. 2025. “Concurrent irrigation pauses can create stream flow pulses for fish during critical low-flow periods.” Water Resources Research, 61 e2024WR039127. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024W

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