Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

STATE REPORT

W4190: Management and Policy Challenges in a Water-Scarce World

10/01/2020 to 09/30/2021

Reflection on what stakeholders want to know & see

Stakeholders have a variety of needs related to projecting future water resource supplies and demands for decision-making at various levels. When considering costly investments in long-term, capital-intensive infrastructure investments, decision-makers want to know the value of project water for agricultural production and other uses. There is also interest in understanding how conservation and water efficiency efforts may impact long-term water supplies and demands. Related, knowledge of best management practices can enhance long-term water quality and quantity (e.g., groundwater management can reduce the likelihood of subsidence and can support certainty of long-term water quality and quantity). Finally, stakeholders would like to identify institutional changes that support the allocation of water resources in ways that can benefit all users.

Plans for the coming year

Stakeholders of W4190 members will continue pursuing research and activities relevant to the stated objectives of the Multistate Hatch Project on Management and Policy Challenges in a Water-Scarce World. The group will maintain contact through professional gatherings and via remote interactions on collaborative research projects and activities.  The annual meeting will take place in October 2022 in Kentucky and will serve as an opportunity to support collaborative research activities and preparation of multistate research proposals addressing our four objectives.

Accomplishments

Please describe activities, outputs, and short-term outcomes over the current reporting period of 2020-2021. Please indicate significant evidence of linkages both internal to the project/committee and to external peer groups, stakeholders, clientele, and other multistate activities.

Objective 1: Characterize water resource and human system response to climatic and anthropogenic perturbations.

California (Dinar)

Agricultural growers respond to droughts and water scarcity and deteriorated quality by adaptation of growing practices, changes to their crop mix, using water from various sources, and introducing institutions to better manage their water.

 Our team completed and published a couple of studies addressing groundwater management and conjunctive use with surface water and treated wastewater to help mitigate drought effects on irrigated agriculture. 

A regional study in the Kings River Basin of California developed a regional dynamic model, which (1) assessed the effect of Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) on the ability of farmers to respond to severe water shortages and profitability under several scenarios of water scarcity, and (2) evaluated the value of the MAR under various scenarios.

 In a study of avocado growers in the Escondido region of San Diego County, we were able to (1) understand the behavior of avocado growers in selecting responses to water shortages, and (2) to estimate the economic value of treated wastewater that could be used for irrigation of avocado plantations in that region.

Colorado (Eiswerth, Goemans, Suter, Kroll)

Suter conducted a two-phase survey of agricultural landowners in Colorado and Nebraska, with assistance from Karina Schoengold (UNL) and Todd Guilfoos (URI), to understand how reported stress levels correlate with water availability and preferences for water management.

Idaho (Maas, Taylor)

Conducted analysis around water availability and quality.  This includes working on projects involving chemical spills, dairies, and agricultural use. Published work around citizen preferences for new water sources in the Palouse Region.

Indiana (Gitau)

We investigated the time distribution of extreme rainfall events as a significant property governing the design of stormwater management structures. Comparisons included: peak rainfall intensities; number of first, second, third, and fourth-quartile storms; dependence of peak rainfall intensity on total depth and duration; and, return levels and return periods of peak discharge when these extremes were applied on a hypothetical urban catchment.

Illinois (Kalita, Bhattarai)

Our team recently completed a study where we investigated the historical shift in extreme precipitation regime in Illinois using Fisher Information. The manuscript is under review.

South Carolina (Rouhi Rad)

Hotter and drier conditions are expected to affect the demand for water across different sectors, such as agricultural irrigation and energy production. Researchers at Clemson collected data for studying the effect of climatic changes on groundwater demand for irrigated agricultural production in South Carolina. The work is currently ongoing.

US Forest Service (Warziniack)

Scientists at the US Forest Service and Colorado State University have modeled water yield and water demand across 20 climate and socioeconomic futures. They examine changes in the frequency, duration, and drought throughout the Continental United States. They find that despite reductions in water demand for much of the U.S., reductions in yield will make shortages more severe. Short term droughts will extend in duration and flash droughts will become more frequent and severe.

Objective 2: Quantify water demand and value of water in competing and complementary water uses.

Arkansas (Kovacs)

Invited to attend a first ever groundwater summit for Arkansas in September.  The summit was delayed unfortunately due to restrictions from COVID. 

A second stage hedonic model is in development to estimate the demand for in-situ groundwater.  This will allow for the valuation of non-marginal changes in the stock of groundwater available for agriculture.

California (Dinar)

Water demand and value in various competing and complementary uses in the San Diego region and in the San Joaquin Valley Region were quantified via the studies of a regional MAR and a regional wastewater reuse analyses that were described in more detail under Objective 1. Results suggest that the value of water is affected by the scarcity scenario and the existing institutions in the region.

Colorado (Suter, Goemans)

Developed a manuscript that evaluates how salinity levels and surface water canal access are capitalized into agricultural land values in Otero County, Colorado.

Georgia (Mullen)

A grant from the GA Environmental Protection Division was secured to generate agricultural water demand projections for 2030, 2040, 2050, and 2060 for the current state water plan. The projections were done by county and aggregated to the watershed level. Projections were based on crop acreage and monthly water applications under different weather conditions. Acreage projections for 2020 that were made in 2010 and 2016 were evaluated based on observed irrigated acreage in 2020 and found to have been quite accurate -- within 5% for all projected crops.

A new map of irrigated acreage in Georgia was created based on aerial photography in 2020.

Access to data from the FRIS survey instruments has been acquired and a new southeast regional model to estimate the extensive and intensive margins of water use is in development and will be estimated with the FRIS data.

 Kansas (Hendricks, Sampson)

Published study of the total, extensive, and intensive irrigation demand response to local ethanol market expansion in Kansas from 2003-2017. Ethanol plants incentive feedstock production (i.e., corn) in localized areas because proximity to the plant increases price received net of transport costs. Moreover, much of the corn produced in western Kansas is irrigated due limited rainfall. We estimate that ethanol expansion in Kansas has increased irrigation water use. Specifically, a 10 million gallon/year increase in refining capacity within 50 km leads to a 1.03 acre-ft increase in water use per field. Moreover, we detect increased irrigated corn acreage and decreased irrigated soy and alfalfa acreage when an ethanol plant is constructed or expands its refining capacity. Finally, we predict that approximately 4% of current statewide irrigation water use is attributable to ethanol markets.

Accepted manuscript examining agricultural land value capitalization of ethanol market expansion in Kansas using transaction-level data for 1995-2017. We hypothesized that corn prices and thus land values in the vicinity of an ethanol plant are higher relative to parcels located farther from a plant. We further hypothesized that irrigated parcels capitalize on ethanol expansion to a greater extent than non-irrigated parcels due to differences in corn water demand and precipitation in Kansas. We estimate that an irrigated (non-irrigated) parcel having one or  more ethanol plants situated within 50 km fetches an 8.8% (6.3%) price premium relative to  more distant irrigated (non-irrigated) parcels, on average. We estimate the average marginal  effect of a 10 million gallon per year increase in ethanol capacity within 50 km is a 4.8%  (1.8%) increase in irrigated (non-irrigated) land value. One concern raised by this study is  greater financial leverage of irrigated farms, potentially leading to increased future vulnerability  to declining income, slackening of bioenergy mandates, or declining irrigation water availability  due to climate change or aquifer drawdown.

Published a paper on the relationship between farm size and groundwater depletion using historical data on water use in Kansas.

Presented a poster at a national academic conference on estimating intraseasonal irrigation using remote sensing soil moisture data from NASA.

Kentucky (Buck)

Completed research on forecasting residential urban water demand in California.  A comprehensive review of academic literature and utility reports on long-term forecasts of water demand shows that water forecast models are not selected on forecast ability and usually only report a single forecast for the future.  In response, we develop a forecast selected on prediction performance and report a range of forecast estimates.  We compare our forecasts of residential urban water demand in California to forecasts from public utility reports using the same data.  The comparison reveals our approach drastically outperforms existing forecast approaches used in public reports.

On-going research on the effect of salinity on crop choice in California went through scientific review, which resulted in comparisons of the effect of salinity on crop choice for producers without recent changes in land-use versus producers with recent changes in land-use. The results of this comparative analysis are consistent with our overall finding that there is statistically and economically significant heterogeneity in the effect of salinity on agricultural land-use. This work is important because it sheds light on how alternative water quality management regimes may impact crop composition between low and high value crops in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta region of California.

On-going research on the consumer welfare impacts of mandated conservation standards (water restrictions) in urban areas of California went through scientific review, which resulted in comparisons of welfare impacts inferred using alternative statistical models and subsamples for estimation of the demand curve’s slope.  This type of comparison is significant since inaccurate estimates of the demand curve’s slope can lead to economically large differences in the monetized impacts consumers experience from water restrictions.  Consistent with this recognition of variable impacts, the overall significance of the work is to illustrate that consumer impacts in response to mandated water restrictions vary across space.  The work also discusses variation in the methods utilities used to achieve mandated water restrictions in their respective service areas as well as the pattern of compliance with restrictions across space.

Mississippi (Quintana)

Developed a dataset for the Delta region in Mississippi that includes field level data on groundwater pumping for irrigation and other beneficial uses. The dataset is enriched with crop choices, weather variables, and aquifer water table elevation for the corresponding years. Additionally, it incorporates surface water sources including on-farm water reservoirs for irrigation and aquaculture.

Secured two EPA and one CIG grants that will find multidisciplinary research into farmer adoption of water conservation and irrigation automation practices over the next three years. The project includes two large surveys of irrigators across the Lower Mississippi River Basin including Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri. Additional stand-alone surveys are planned for the Mississippi portion of the Delta to explore farmer willingness to adopt some of the experimental practices in the project.

A farmer-to-farmer EPA grant funds a research project that consists in shallow off-season flooding of cropland to create temporary habitats for migratory birds. The ecosystem services provided and additional activities required would be evaluated over the three-year period ending in mid-2024.

Missouri (McCann)

A graduate student presented a paper at the 2021 AAEA meetings on the economic impacts of irrigation using the Edwards Aquifer (in Texas) after pumping technologies were available. 

Nebraska (Brozovic, Schoengold)

Researchers collaborated with colleagues in other institutions, in industry, and in the National Drought Mitigation Center around estimating agricultural water use and the value of water in agriculture. Much of this work was interdisciplinary and combined economic, hydrologic, and agronomic methods and datasets. Key results show that there are high levels of spatial and temporal variability in measurement errors when comparing in situ and satellite-derived water use estimates; and in average water values for corn production in the High Plains. These multiple sources of variability complicate drought mitigation and water policy planning.

North Carolina (Edwards)

Brought together a group of 15 water economists, policymakers, and practitioners to explore forthcoming issues in water markets over nine hours of presentations and discussions, leading to the development of policy discussion papers.

Oklahoma (Lambert)

Published two peer reviewed research articles on climate change impacts on irrigation water demand and productivity in the Southeastern U.S. Findings are useful to local field crop producers in aiding decisions on irrigation technologies and land use at the farm and watershed level.

South Carolina (Rouhi Rad)

Analyzed water withdrawal and use for the major sectors in the state, including agriculture, energy production, and public supply. It was shown that water use for cooling purposes in energy production is one of the largest users of water in the state.However, there are significant gaps in data availability when moving from water withdrawals to water consumption. The first article from this series is under review.

US Forest Service (Warziniack)

Scientists at the US Forest Service and Colorado State University have modeled water yield and water demand across 20 climate and socioeconomic futures. They examine changes in the frequency, duration, and drought throughout the Continental United States. They find that despite reductions in water demand for much of the U.S., reductions in yield will make shortages more severe. Short term droughts will extend in duration and flash droughts will become more frequent and severe.

Objective 3: Evaluate and compare coordinated/integrated management of water sources and land use practices.

Arkansas (Kovacs)

Assessed the use of afforestation as a tool to sequester mitigate groundwater overdraft in the Arkansas Delta.  Evaluated the influence of climatic uncertainty on the choice of surface water reservoirs or MAR in the Arkansas Delta.

Continue research using a sample selection model to evaluate the choice and amount of farmland that uses specific irrigation practices in the Arkansas Delta.

California (Dinar, D’Odorico)

Coordinated/integrated management practices of water sources and land use practices in the San Joaquin Valley Region were evaluated via the study of a regional MAR that was described in more detail under Objective 1. Results suggest that MAR is a sustainable strategy to address water scarcity, while improving the regional welfare. INtegration of use of various sources of water has been proven important for the regional economy.

Colorado (Suter, Goemans)

Sent groundwater use comparison mailers to groundwater users in Colorado and Kansas as part of a Randomized Controlled Trial that is collaborative work with Nathan Hendricks (KSU) and Aaron Hrozencik (ERS).

Illinois (Kalita, Bhattarai)

Published a review paper that summarized the current research state on the use of waste materials and their modified forms as adsorbents for dissolved reactive P removal from wastewater. Various performance improvement methods were compiled into the research outcomes to highlight three significant efforts that scientists have contributed to promoting the application of waste-based adsorbents: (i) how to enhance the P removal efficiency; (ii) how to scale up implementation; and (iii) how to achieve sustainable management.

Published a review paper on the generation, fundamental characteristics, environmental concerns to potential applications, and benefits analysis of coal bottom ash. High-value applications and current research related to CBA, including construction and ceramic industry, wastewater remediation, soil amelioration, energy catalysis, valuable metals recovery, and material synthesis, were systemically presented and compared in the paper.

Indiana (Gitau)

We identified critical periods for water resources management to facilitate robust water-resources decision-making at the Food-Energy-Water nexus. A composite look at all the FEW nexus elements showed that critical periods for water management in the study watershed occurred in the early and late season —primarily related to water quality—and mid-season, related to water quantity. This suggests the need to adapt agricultural and other management practices across the growing season in line with the respective water management needs.

Kansas (Hendricks, Sampson)

A student completed a master’s thesis that provided a techno-economic analysis of an Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor (AnMBR) system to capture methane and clean water from livestock waste.

Michigan (Asher, Najadhashemi, O’Neil, Wolfson)

A graduate student at MSU evaluated the robustness of several soil moisture metrics of temporal dynamics to growth and yield under climate extremes

Objective 1a:

Developed an interface for a national drought forecasting system, utilizing model outputs for generated by Michigan State University’s Weekly Drought Monitoring and Prediction System (WDMPS) (funded by USGS 104b).

 Objective 1b:

Modeled the potential risks to human health from harmful algal blooms in western Lake Erie Basin communities (both in Michigan and Ohio) and in the Saginaw Bay region (funded by Michigan Sea Grant).

 Objective 2a:

Started a project to evaluate the feasibility of employing a groundwater trading program in Ottawa County, MI. Generating models of aquifer recharge under various conservation strategies, which will then be used to guide proposed trades between buyers who have regulatory limitations on water withdraws and sellers who are willing to adopt conservation practices that increase recharge (funded by USGS 104b).

 Collaborated with surface water modelers in MSU’s Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering to simulate the impact of various agricultural conservation strategies on phosphorus runoff in the Saginaw River watershed. Developed an online mapping tool allowing users to evaluate those strategies on a field by field basis (funded by EPA-GLRI).

Developed a phosphorus runoff mapbook for soil and water conservation district technicians in southeast Michigan to help prioritize conservation outreach activities (funded by MDARD).

 Objective 3b:

Collaborating with surface water modelers from the University of Michigan to explore the impacts of urbanization, green infrastructure, and real-time water monitoring on water quality and quantity in the Clinton River watershed of southeast Michigan (funded by EGLE).

 Objective 3c:

Developed a groundwater model for the L’Anse reservation in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to explore potential pathways for arsenic contamination (funded by USDA-NIFA, as a subaward to the Keweenaw Bay Ojibwe Community College).

Floating Wetland Research

Research on Floating Plants in a Constructed Wetland for Phosphorus Removal from Tile Drain Runoff

• Presented project and research results at the Michigan Inland Lakes Convention (online)
• Co-presented paper at the UCOWR/NIWR conference (online)
• Year 2 results found seasonal 61.3% reduction of phosphorus from entering to leaving the first wetland; determined which plants did best in P uptake and which had the greatest biomass increase.

Mississippi (Quintana)

Published an article that evaluates the profitability and risk of reducing the amount of water application by half on soybean and cotton when compared to existing agronomical prescriptions. The practice of skip-row irrigation is dominant for cotton farming but costly and risk-increasing for soybean producers. The paper suggests there is room for optimizing the current irrigation decision rules associated with soil moisture sensor based management.

An article currently in R&R explores the long-term implications and optimality of pluvial and irrigation capture, storage and reuse in irrigation. Results suggests that free-market outcomes result in underinvestment in capture and storage infrastructure.

Nebraska (Schoengold)

In a recent publication, Schoengold and co-authors examine whether the current crop insurance program creates an incentive to adjust irrigation application. Results suggest that under the current program design and current irrigation costs, little incentive exists to modify irrigation use. However, if the program is modified and/or irrigation costs increase substantially, it may create an incentive to reduce irrigation below the economically optimal level.

Oklahoma (Lambert)

Applied research on rainfed wheat-based double crop options for the southern great plains region including Oklahoma and Kansas; collaborated with colleagues from agricultural economics and plant and soil science disciplines to estimate the economic value of soil moisture information and insurance options in assisting farmer decision making for summer crops choices following winter wheat.

South Carolina (Rouhi Rad)

Developed and modified an integrated model for groundwater use in the Kansas portion of the High Plains Aquifer (with Suter, Manning and Goemans from Colorado State). The model is used to analyze the effectiveness of two different types of conservation subsidy payments for reducing groundwater use. This work is important because groundwater availability is important to local producers. Showing the effectiveness of different policies would provide local communities with an understanding of the tradeoffs between different types of policies.

Wyoming (Hansen)

A graduate student mentored by Hansen received the 2021 Western Agricultural Economics Association Outstanding Masters Thesis award for her analysis of the ecological and economic trade-offs associated with programs encouraging voluntary water conservation practices on irrigated rangelands in the Colorado River Basin.

Objective 4: Evaluate and compare alternative water quantity and quality management strategies and institutions.

California (Dinar)

Water quantity and quality management strategies and institutions of water sources in the San Joaquin Valley Region were evaluated via the studies of a regional MAR and a regional wastewater reuse that were described in more detail under Objective 1.

Developed a regional model to assess the performance of GW management institutions in Managed Aquifer Recharge in Kings GW Basin in California. And Developed a regional model to assess the possibilities of interactions between urban centers and agricultural growers in use of urban wastewater.

Colorado (Suter, Goemans, Eiswerth)

Initiated research that compares groundwater use behavior on leased state land board land parcels in comparison to privately held irrigated land in Colorado

Georgia (Mullen)

A comparison of two water management strategies -- irrigation buyout auctions versus source switching -- is near completion. The comparison uses IMPLAN to estimate, by county,  the direct, indirect and induced costs of taking irrigated land out of production via a buyout auction. The expected present value of costs of managing water shortages during drought with a buyout auction over a 25-year time horizon are dependent on the probability that auctions would be need to be held. The expected present value of costs of source switching are developed based on the fixed costs of drilling new wells to the Claiborne aquifer which has limited hydrologic connectivity to surface water, the increase in variable costs due to pumping water from a greater depth, and the probability that the new Claiborne aquifer will run dry due to over-drafting. Preliminary results suggest that in the absence of a threat of over-drafting, source switching is a more cost-effective management strategy than a certain buyout auction in year 1 for all counties in the study area. As the probability of holding an auction falls, however, the auction becomes more effective, but in a uniform manner across the study area. The heterogeneity of the cost-effectiveness of the auction allows us to identify which counties to prioritize for source-switching.

Kansas (Hendricks, Sampson)

Published study of irrigator water quality testing behavior and perceptions of the impact of low water quality on crop outcomes. In total, we evaluated survey data for 637 producers operating over the Kansas portion of the High Plains Aquifer. We find that producers exhibit greater concern for groundwater quantity than the quality of groundwater. For instance, one-third of respondents indicated “moderate” or “major” concern over the agricultural impacts of low water quality. By comparison, one-half of respondents indicated “moderate” or “major” concern over the agricultural impacts of low water quantity (as measured by well yield). Finally, we estimate producer willingness to pay for a marginal improvement in water quality (as measured by salinity levels) using contingent valuation. We estimate willingness to pay ranging from $26/well to $39/well for an incremental increase in the salt content of irrigation water. 

Published a paper that synthesizes lessons that can be learned from the recent experience of local efforts to manage groundwater in Kansas. We utilized several different sources of data to determine some measure of support or resistance to local groundwater management by individual users and examined if certain resource characteristics were correlated with their support. We also provided a qualitative analysis of different management plans and examine what factors may have led to their degree of success.

Collaborated with a Groundwater Management District (GMD) board of directors and conducted a survey of irrigators to ask if they support different types of water management plans. Results from the survey were presented at the GMD annual meeting and will also be analyzed further for future academic publications.

Presented a poster at a national academic conference that examines how different characteristics of water users and the aquifer affect and individual’s support for groundwater management using survey data we collected.

Michigan (Ghane)

Ghane developed eight new Extension Publications to address stakeholder questions regarding drainage water quantity and quality. In response to questions that Ghane received via phone calls and emails from Michigan stakeholders, he has written eight Extension bulletins as first author. These publications offer new and practical information about addressing common drainage issues, as well as information about conservation drainage practices. These publications are available on Ghane’s Drainage Extension website.

 Effort: (Obj. 4) – Ghane published a paper about optimizing crop production for subsurface-drained field. This paper is the scientific basis for the Drain Spacing decision-support tool. This paper led to the Drain Spacing Tool.

Outcome: (Obj. 4) – E. Ghane, M.H. Askar, R.W. Skaggs. 2021. Design drainage rates to optimize crop production for subsurface-drained fields. Agricultural Water Management. 257, 107045.

 Effort: (Obj. 4) – Ghane published a paper showing the water quantity and quality benefits of the conservation drainage practice of shallow drains. This paper was converted to an Extension bulletin to disseminate research to stakeholders.

Outcome: (Obj. 4) – E. Ghane and M.H. Askar. 2021. Predicting the effect of drain depth on profitability and hydrology of subsurface drainage systems across the eastern USA. Agricultural Water Management. 258, 107072.

 Effort: (Obj. 4) – Ghane published a paper providing the means of measuring water quantity, so it can be used for water quality evaluation of conservation drainage practices.

Outcome: (Obj. 4) – M.S.B. Shokrana, E. Ghane*. 2021. An empirical V-notch weir equation and standard procedure to accurately estimate drainage discharge. Applied Engineering in Agriculture. In Press.

Missouri (McCann)

Published a paper with researchers from Tunisia on groundwater management institutions and the potential for institutional change using Ostrom’s theories of collective action. 

North Carolina (Edwards)

Published study exploring groundwater management across the globe which developed a novel method to explain what type of management emerges by assessing the magnitude of the benefits of reduced externalities and the costs of implementing management.

Oklahoma (Lambert)

Conducted a national study on water quality violations and assessed if social media was useful for examining local water quality perceptions. The research quantified the relationship between consumer social media perceptions and reported drinking water quality to generate insight for state water managers and policymakers. Results demonstrate that, in many cases, water violations in one urban area emerge as national news, which had the effect of eclipsing local water issues circulating on social media.

Wyoming (Hansen)

Completed an assessment of the regional economic impacts of water transfers in the Wyoming portion of the Colorado River Basin. The study has assisted water rights holders and other stakeholders in evaluating a potential demand management program (water conservation) in the region; and highlighted scientific data needs to better improve decision-making.

US Forest Service (Warziniack)

Scientists from the US Forest Service have been working with partners to form the Western Water Network, a collaboration across researchers, extensions specialists, and stakeholders to address sustainability issues related to water use in the West. The network has received rapid response funding from NIFA and hopes to hold its first congress in 2022.

Publications (10/01/2020 to 09/30/2021)

Arkansas

Kovacs, K., R. Haight, K. Moore, M. Popp. 2021. “Afforestation for carbon sequestration in the Lower Mississippi River Basin of Arkansas, USA: Does modeling of land use a fine spatial resolution reveal lower carbon cost?” Forest Policy and Economics, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102526

Tran, D., K. Kovacs. 2021. “Climate uncertainty and optimal groundwater augmentation.” Water Resources Research, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR030114

 Kovacs, K., H. Snell. 2021. “Heterogeneity in time preferences for an investment in irrigation.” Land Economics, 97(4): 27-40.

West, G., H. Snell, K. Kovacs, R. Nayga. 2021. “Flexible estimation of groundwater service values and time preferences.” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 8(4): 825-861.

California

Reznik, A. and A. Dinar, Local Conditions and the Economic Feasibility of Urban Wastewater Recycling in Irrigated Agriculture: Lessons from a Stochastic Regional Analysis in California. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, (Accepted for publication, September 10, 2021).

Reznik, A., Y. Jiang and A. Dinar, The Impacts of Climate Change on Wastewater Treatment Costs: Evidence from the Wastewater Sector in China. Water, (Accepted for publication, No-vember 19, 2020), 2020, 12(11):3272, https://doi.org/10.3390/w12113272.

Reznik, A., and A. Dinar. “Reuse of Recycled Municipal Wastewater by Irrigated Agricul-ture in the Escondido Region, California.” ARE Update 23(4) (2020): 5–8. University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics.

Rightnar, J. and A. Dinar. “Welfare Consequences on the Salton Sea Region of Re-allocating Colorado River Flow Deficit.” ARE Update 23(6) (2020): 5–8. University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics.

Reznik, A., A. Dinar, S. Bresney, L. Forni, B. Joyce, S. Wallander, D. Bigelow, and I. Kan. “Can Managed Aquifer Recharge Mitigate Drought Impacts on California’s Irrigated Agri-culture? The Role for Institutions and Policies.” ARE Update 24(4) (2021):5–8. University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics.

Colorado

Hrozencik, R. A., Manning, D. T., Suter, J. F., & Goemans, C. (2021). Impacts of Block‐Rate Energy Pricing on Groundwater Demand in Irrigated Agriculture. American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Rouhi Rad, M., D.M. Manning, J.F. Suter, and C. Goemans. Forthcoming. Policy Leakage or Policy Benefit? Spatial Spillovers from Conservation Policies in Common Property Resources. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

Brown, Thomas and Stephan Kroll (2021). “Inequality Hinders Group Efforts to Avoid Environmental Disasters,” Q Open 1/1, Article qoab006.

 Suter, J.F., M. Rouhi Rad, D.T. Manning, C. Goemans, M. Sanderson. 2021. Depletion, Climate, and the Incremental Value of Groundwater. Resource and Energy Economics. 63: 101143.

Manning, D., M. Rouhi Rad, J.F. Suter, C. Goemans, Z. Xiang, and R. Bailey. 2020. Non-market Valuation in Integrated Modeling: The Benefits of Water Right Retirement. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 103: 102341.

Cherry, Todd L., Steffen Kallbekken, Stephan Kroll and David M. McEvoy (2021). “Does Solar Geoengineering Crowd Out Climate Change Mitigation Efforts? Evidence from a Stated Preference Referendum on a Carbon Tax,” Climatic Change 165, Article 6.

Florida

Medina, M., R. Huffaker, R. Muñoz-Carpena, and G. Kiker (2021). An empirical nonlinear dynamics approach to analyzing emergent behavior of agent-based models. AIP Advances, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0023116 .

Medina, M., R. Huffaker, J. Jawitz, and R. Muñoz-Carpena (2020). Seasonal dynamics of terrestrially sourced nitrogen influenced Karenia brevis blooms off Florida’s southern Gulf Coast. Harmful Algae 98, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2020.101900 .

Huffaker, R. and E. McLamore (2020). A protocol for reconstructing the dynamics of real-world systems from observational data: Application for establishing a digital proxy of a bioreactor (DIYBOT). Protocol Exchange DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.pex-1052/v1.

McLamore, E., R. Huffaker, M. Shupler, K. Ward, S. Palit, A. Datta, M. Banks, G. Casaburi, J. Babilonia, and J. Foster (2020).  Digital Proxy of a Bio-Reactor (DIYBOT) combines sensor data and data analytics to improve greywater treatment and wastewater management systems. Nat. Sci. Rep. 10.8015, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598‐020‐64789‐5.

Georgia

Brown, Marilyn A., Blair Beasley, Fikret Atalay, Kim M. Cobb, Puneet Dwivedi, Jeffrey Hubbs, David M. Iwaniec, Sudhagar Mani, Daniel Matisoff, Jacqueline E. Mohan, Jeffrey Mullen, Michael Oxman, Daniel Rochberg, Michael Rodgers, Marshall Shepherd, Richard Simmons, Laura Taylor, L. Beril Toktay. (2021) “Translating a Global Emission-Reduction Framework for Subnational Climate Action: A Case Study from the State of Georgia,” Environmental Management. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-020-01406-1

Marilyn A. Brown, Puneet Dwivedi, Sudhagar Mani, Daniel Matisoff, Jacqueline E. Mohan, Jeffrey Mullen, Michael Oxman, Michael Rodgers, Richard Simmons, Blair Beasley, Lalith Polepeddi. (2021) “A framework for localizing global climate solutions and their carbon reduction potential,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Aug 2021, 118 (31) e2100008118; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2100008118

Idaho

Burton, K., A. Maas, and K. Lee. 2021. “The Temporal and Spatial Extent of Property Value Losses Following a Freshwater Chemical Spill”. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Awad, K., A. Maas, and C. Wardropper. 2021. “Preferences for Alternative Water Supplies in the Pacific Northwest: A Choice Experiment.” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 147(4). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001342   

Indiana

Rohith, A. N., Gitau, M. W., Chaubey, I., & Sudheer, K. P. (2021). A multistate first-order Markov model for modeling time distribution of extreme rainfall events. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 35(6), 1205-1221.

Schull, V. Z., Mehan, S., Gitau, M. W., Johnson, D. R., Singh, S., Sesmero, J. P., & Flanagan, D. C. (2021). Construction of Critical Periods for Water Resources Management and Their Application in the FEW Nexus. Water, 13(5), 718.

Torres, C., Gitau, M., Lara-Borrero, J., & Paredes-Cuervo, D. (2020). Framework for Water Management in the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus in Mixed Land-Use Watersheds in Colombia. Sustainability, 12(24), 10332.

Illinois

Zhou, H., Margenot, A. J., Li, Y., Si, B., Wang, T., Zhang, Y., Li, S., & Bhattarai, R. (2021). Phosphorus pollution control using waste-based adsorbents: Material synthesis, modification, and sustainability. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 1-37. DOI: 10.1080/10643389.2020.1866414

Zhou, H., Bhattarai, R., Li, Y., Si, B., Dong, X., Wang, T., & Yao, Z. (2021). Towards sustainable coal industry: Turning coal bottom ash into wealth. Science of The Total Environment, 804, 149985. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149985

Kansas

Gardner, G., G.S. Sampson, and D. Presley (2021). “Irrigator perceptions and the value of groundwater quality in the High Plains Aquifer.” Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 00118, https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.2021.00118.

Sampson, G.S., A. Al-Sudani, J. Bergtold (2021). “Local irrigation response to ethanol expansion in the High Plains Aquifer.” Resource and Energy Economics 66, 101249, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2021.101249.

Gardner, G. and G.S. Sampson (forthcoming). “Land value impacts of ethanol market expansion by irrigation status.” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics doi:10.22004/ag.econ.313314.

Ao, Y.Z., N.P. Hendricks, and L.T. Marston. 2021. "Growing farms and groundwater depletion in the Kansas High Plains" Environmental Research Letters 16: 084065.

Perez-Quesada, G. and N.P. Hendricks. 2021. “Lessons from Local Governance and Collective Action Efforts to Manage Irrigation Withdrawals in Kansas” Agricultural Water Management 247: 106736.

Parker, Emily. 2021. “Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor (AnMBR) economic viability on swine operations” MS Thesis, Kansas State University.

Kentucky (Buck)

Buck, S., Auffhammer, M., Soldati, H., & Sunding, D. (2020). Forecasting residential water consumption in California: rethinking model selection. Water Resources Research, 56(1), e2018WR023965.

Uz, D., & Buck, S. (2020). Comparing Water Use Forecasting Model Selection Criteria: The Case of Commercial, Institutional, and Industrial Sector in Southern California. Sustainability, 12(10), 3995.

Michigan

M.S.B. Shokrana, E. Ghane*. 2021. An empirical V-notch weir equation and standard procedure to accurately estimate drainage discharge. Applied Engineering in Agriculture. In Press.

2021. Ghane and M.H. Askar. 2021. Predicting the effect of drain depth on profitability and hydrology of subsurface drainage systems across the eastern USA. Agricultural Water Management. 258, 107072.
2022. Ghane, M.H. Askar, R.W. Skaggs. 2021. Design drainage rates to optimize crop production for subsurface-drained fields. Agricultural Water Management. 257, 107045.

Eeswaran, R., Nejadhashemi, A.P., Alves, F.C. and Saravi, B., 2021. Evaluating the applicability of soil moisture-based metrics for gauging the resiliency of rainfed agricultural systems in the midwestern United States. Soil and Tillage Research, 205, p.104818.

Eeswaran, R., Nejadhashemi, A.P. and Miller, S.R., 2021. Evaluating the climate resilience in terms of profitability and risk for a long-term corn-soybean-wheat rotation under different treatment systems. Climate Risk Management, 32, p.100284.

Mississippi

Quintana‐Ashwell, N., Anapalli, S.S., Pinnamaneni, S.R., Kaur, G., Reddy, K.N. and Fisher, D., 2021. Profitability of twin‐row planting and skip‐row irrigation in a humid climate. Agronomy Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/agj2.20847

Missouri

Soula, Rania, Ali Chebil, Laura McCann, and Rajouene Majdoub.  “Water Scarcity in the Mahdia Region of Tunisia: Are Improved Water Policies Needed?”  Groundwater for Sustainable Development, February 2021, 12: 100510.

Nebraska

Foster, T., T. Mieno, and N. Brozović (2020) “Satellite‐based monitoring of irrigation water use: Assessing measurement errors and their implications for agricultural water management policy,” Water Resources Research, v. 56 (11), e2020WR028378.

Rimsaite, R., J. Gibson, and N. Brozović (2021) “Informing drought mitigation policy by estimating the value of water for crop production,” Environmental Research Communications, v. 3, 041004.

Suchato, P., T. Mieno, K. Schoengold, and T. Foster (2021) “The Potential for Moral Hazard Behavior in Irrigation Decisions under Crop Insurance” Agricultural Economics, available online 30-AUG-2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12676.

Young, R., T. Foster, T. Mieno, A. Valocchi, and N. Brozović (2021) “Hydrologic‐economic trade‐offs in groundwater allocation policy design,” Water Resources Research, v. 57 (1), e2020WR027941.

North Carolina

Edwards, E.C. and Guilfoos, T. In Press. The Economics of Groundwater Governance Institutions Across the Globe. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy.

Oklahoma

Lambert, L. and Bir, Courtney. Evaluating water quality using social media and federal agency data. Journal of Water and Health. (forthcoming)

Lambert, L. H. and Hagerman, A. Industrial hemp production and market risk analysis: a case study in Oklahoma. Journal of Applied Farm Economics. (forthcoming)

Lambert, L. H., Burton C. English, Christopher C. Clark et al. (2021). Local effects of climate change on row crop production and adoption. Climate Risk Management 32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2021.100293

Pasaribu, K.N., Lambert, L. H., Lambert, D.M. et al. (2021). Profitability of irrigating for corn, cotton, and soybeans under projected drought scenarios in the Southeastern United States. Irrigation Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00271-020-00707-x

Bir, C., and Lambert, L.H. Considering water quality in Oklahoma. Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service Fact Sheets, March 2021. https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/considering-water-quality-in-oklahoma.html

South Carolina

Mieno, Taro, Mani Rouhi Rad, Jordan Suter, and Robert Hrozencik. "The Importance of Well Yield in Groundwater Demand Specification." Forthcoming Land Economics (2021).

Mani Rouhi Rad, Dale T. Manning, Jordan F. Suter, and Christopher Goemans. “Policy Leakage or Policy Benefit? Spatial Spillovers from Conservation Policies in Common Property Resources” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 2021 8:5, 923-953

Araya, A., P. H. Gowda, M. Rouhi Rad, C. B. Ariyaratne, I. A. Ciampitti, C. W. Rice, and P. V. V. Prasad. "Evaluating optimal irrigation for potential yield and economic performance of major crops in southwestern Kansas." Agricultural Water Management 244 (2021): 106536.

Manning, Dale T., Mani Rouhi Rad, Jordan F. Suter, Christopher Goemans, Zaichen Xiang, and Ryan Bailey. "Non-market valuation in integrated assessment modeling: The benefits of water right retirement." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 103 (2020): 102341.

Wyoming

Hansen, K., R. Coupal, E. Yeatman, and D. Bennett. 2021. “Economic Assessment of a Water Demand Management Program in Wyoming’s Portion of the Colorado River Basin: Summary” Bulletin B-1373. Laramie, WY: University of Wyoming Extension.

Hansen, K., R. Coupal, E. Yeatman, and D. Bennett. 2021. “Economic Assessment of a Water Demand Management Program in Wyoming’s Portion of the Colorado River Basin.” Final Report to The Nature Conservancy. March 15, 2021. 112 pages. https://www.uwyo.edu/uwe/wy-dm-ucrb/econ-report.html

US Forest Service

Champ, P. A., Meldrum, J. R., Brenkert-Smith, H., Warziniack, T. W., Barth, C. M., Falk, L. C., & Gomez, J. B. (2020). Do actions speak louder than words? Comparing the effect of risk aversion on objective and self-reported mitigation measures. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 169, 301-313.

Heidari, H., Arabi, M., Warziniack, T., & Kao, S. C. (2020). Assessing shifts in regional hydroclimatic conditions of US river basins in response to climate change over the 21st century. Earth's Future, 8(10), e2020EF001657.

Heidari, H., Arabi, M., Ghanbari, M., & Warziniack, T. (2020). A probabilistic approach for characterization of sub-annual socioeconomic drought intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) relationships in a changing environment. Water, 12(6), 1522.

Wang, Z., Nong, D., Countryman, A. M., Corbett, J. J., & Warziniack, T. (2020). Potential impacts of ballast water regulations on international trade, shipping patterns, and the global economy: An integrated transportation and economic modeling assessment. Journal of Environmental Management, 275, 110892.

Heidari, H., Arabi, M., & Warziniack, T. (2021). Effects of climate change on natural-caused fire activity in western US national forests. Atmosphere, 12(8), 981.

Heidari, H., Arabi, M., Warziniack, T., & Kao, S. C. (2021). Shifts in hydroclimatology of US megaregions in response to climate change. Environmental Research Communications.

Heidari, H., Warziniack, T., Brown, T. C., & Arabi, M. (2021). Impacts of climate change on hydroclimatic conditions of US national forests and grasslands. Forests, 12(2), 139.

Chinnasamy, C. V., Arabi, M., Sharvelle, S., Warziniack, T., Furth, C. D., & Dozier, A. (2021). Characterization of Municipal Water Uses in the Contiguous United States. Water Resources Research, e2020WR028627.

Warziniack, T., Haight, R. G., Yemshanov, D., Apriesnig, J. L., Holmes, T. P., Countryman, A. M., ... & Haberland, C. (2021). Economics of invasive species. Invasive Species in Forests and Rangelands of the United States, 305.

Rasmussen, S., Warziniack, T., Neel, A., O’Neil-Dunne, J., & McHale, M. (2021). When Small Is Not Beautiful: The Unexpected Impacts of Trees and Parcel Size on Metered Water-Use in a Semi-Arid City. Remote Sensing, 13(5), 998.

Olander, L., Warnell, K., Warziniack, T., Ghali, Z., Miller, C., & Neelan, C. (2021). Exploring the Use of Ecosystem Services Conceptual Models to Account for the Benefits of Public Lands: An Example from National Forest Planning in the United States. Forests, 12(3), 267.

Heidari, H., Arabi, M., & Warziniack, T. Vulnerability to Water Shortage Under Current and Future Water Supply‐Demand Conditions Across US River Basins. Earth's Future, e2021EF002278.

Publications (10/01/2019 to 09/30/2020)

Arkansas

Tran, D., K. Kovacs, S. Wallander. 2020. “Water conservation with managed aquifer recharge under increased drought risk.” Environmental Management DOI 10.1007/s00267-020-01329-x

Tran, D., K. Kovacs, G. West. 2020. “Spatial economic predictions of managed aquifer recharge for an agricultural landscape.” Agricultural Water Management 241: 106337.

Kovacs, K, A. Durand-Morat. 2020. “The influence of lateral flows in an aquifer on the agricultural value of groundwater.” Natural Resources Modeling, 33: e12266.

Nian, Y., Q. Huang, K. Kovacs, C. Henry, J. Krutz. 2020. “Water management practices: Use patterns, related factors, and correlations with irrigated acres.” Water Resources Research, 56: e2019WR025360.

Tran, D., K. Kovacs, S. Wallander. 2019. “Long run optimization of landscape level irrigation through managed aquifer recharge or expanded surface reservoirs.” Journal of Hydrology 579: 124220.

California

Reznik, A., Y. Jiang, and A. Dinar, Policy Implications of Climate Change Impacts on Wastewater Treatment Costs: Evidence from China. UCR SPP Working Paper Se-ries, April 2019 - WP#19-01. (https://spp.ucr.edu/sites/g/files/rcwecm1611/files/2019-05/041819_Climate%20Change%20Impacts%20on%20Wastewater%20Treatment%20Costs_WP.pdf.)

Tu, C., S. Suweis, and P. D’Odorico, (2019). Impact of globalization on the resilience and sustainability of natural resources, Nature Sustainability, 2, 283-289.

D'Odorico P., J.A. Carr, K. F. Davis, J. Dell'Angelo, DA Seekell (2019). "Food inequality, injustice, and rights", BioScience, 69(3), 180-190, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz002.

D’Odorico, P., J.A. Carr, C. Dalin, J. Dell’Angelo, M. Konar, F. Laio, L. Ridolfi, L. Rosa, S. Suweis, M. Tuninetti, (2019). Global virtual water trade and the hydrological cycle: Patterns, drivers, and socio-environmental impacts, Environmental research Letters, 14, 053001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab05f4.

Rulli, M.C., S. Casirati, J. Dell’Angelo, K.F. Davis, C. Passera, P. D’Odorico, (2019). Interdependencies and telecoupling of oil palm expansion at the expense of Indonesian rainforest, (2019). Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, 105: 499-512, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2018.12.050.

Rosa, L and P. D’Odorico (2019). The water-energy-food nexus of unconventional oil and gas extraction in the Vaca Muerta Play, Argentina, J. Cleaner Production, 207:743-750. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.10.039 .

D’Odorico, P. (2018), The challenges of meeting future food, energy, and water needs, Eos, 99, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EO098891. 

Peer Reviewed Publications (journals and book chapters) Reznik, A., Y. Jiang, and A. Dinar, Policy Implications of Climate Change Impacts on Wastewater Treatment Costs: Evidence from China. UCR SPP Working Paper Series, April 2019 - WP#19-01. (https://spp.ucr.edu/sites/g/files/rcwecm1611/files/2019-05/041819_Climate%20Change%20Impacts%20on%20Wastewater%20Treatment%20Costs_WP.pdf.)  Reints, J., A. Dinar and D. Crowley, 2020. Dealing with Water Scarcity and Salinity: Adoption of Water Efficient Technologies and Management Practices by California Avocado Growers. Sustainability, 12(9), 3555. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12093555.  Rightnar, J. and A. Dinar, 2020. The Welfare Implications of Bankruptcy Allocation of the Colorado River Water: The Case of the Salton Sea Region. Water Resources Management, 34:2353–2370. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-020-02552-1. Ashraf, A. and A. Dinar, 2020. Impact of Short-Run Weather Fluctuations on Farmland Sales and Values. Journal of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, 1:137-147. Purvis, L. and A. Dinar, 2019. Are Intra- and Inter-basin Water Transfers a Sustainable Policy Inter-vention for Addressing Water Scarcity? Water Security, 9:100058, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2019.100058.  Reznik, A., A. Dinar, and F. Hernandez-Sancho, 2019. Treated Wastewater Reuse: An Efficient and Sustainable Solution for Water Resource Scarcity. Environmental and Resource Economics, 74(4):1647–1685. Dinar, A., D. Parker, H. Huynh, and A. Tieu, 2020. The Evolving Nature of California’s Water Economy. Chapter 5 in: P. L. Martin, R. E. Goodhue, and B. D. Wright (Eds.), California Agriculture: Dimensions and Issues. Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics Press. Policy Publications Reznik, Ami and Ariel Dinar, 2020. Reuse of Recycled Municipal Wastewater by Irrigated Agriculture in the Escondido Region, California.” ARE Update 23(4) (2020): 5–8. University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. Rightnar, Jacob and Ariel Dinar, 2020. Welfare Consequences on the Salton Sea Region of Re-allocating Colorado River Flow Deficit. ARE Update 23(6) (2020): 5–8. University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. Draft Working Papers Reznik, A., A. Dinar, L. Forni, S. Bresnik, B. Joyce, and I. Kan, 2020. Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) as a Strategy to Mitigate Drought Impacts in Irrigated Agriculture: The Role of Climate Shocks, Institutions and Policies with Application to California. Final report to USDA-ERS. To appear in 2020 as UCR School of Public Policy Working Paper. Dinar, A., E. Esteban, E. Calvo, G. Herrera, P. Teatini, R. Tomás, Y. Li, P. Ezquerro, and J. Albiac, 2020. We Lose Ground: Global Assessment of Land Subsidence Extent and Determinants. To appear in 2020 as UCR School of Public Policy Working Paper. Dinar, A., E. Esteban, E. Calvo, G. Herrera, P. Teatini, R. Tomás, Y. Li, and J. Albiac, 2020. Land Subsidence: A Groundwater Overexploitation Problem. To appear in 2020 as UCR School of Public Policy Working Paper.

Seekell, D.A., P. D'Odorico, and G.K. MacDonald, 2018. "Food, trade, and the environment", Environm. Res. Lett., 13(10), 100201.

Rosa., L., M.C. Rulli, K.F. Davis, D. Chiarelli, C. Passera, P. D'Odorico, 2018. Closing the yield gap while ensuring water sustainability, Environm. Res. Lett., 13 104002.

Dell'Angelo, J., P. D'Odorico, and M.C. Rulli, (2018). "The neglected costs of water peace", WIREs Water, 5(6), e1316. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1316.

Davis, K.F., A. Bhattachan, P. D'Odorico, and S. Suweis, 2018, "A universal model for predicting human migration under climate change: Examining future sea level rise in Bangladesh", Environm. Res. Lett., 13, 064030, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aac4d4.

D’Odorico, P., K.F. Davis, L. Rosa, J.A. Carr, D. Chiarelli, J. Dell’Angelo, J.A. Gephart, G.K. MacDonald, D.A. Seekell, S Suweis, M.C. Rulli, “The global food-energy-water nexus”, Reviews of Geophysics, 56, 456-531, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017RG000591

Colorado

Manning, D., M. Rouhi Rad, J.F. Suter, C. Goemans, Z. Xiang, and R. Bailey. 2020. Non-market Valuation in Integrated Modeling: The Benefits of Water Right Retirement. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 103: 102341.

Duke, J., Z. Liu, J.F. Suter, K.D. Messer, and H. Michael. 2020. Some Taxes Are Better Than Others: An Economic Experiment Analyzing Groundwater Management in a Spatially Explicit Aquifer. Water Resources Research. 56(7).

Hennighausen, H. and J.F. Suter. 2020. Flood Risk Perception in the Housing Market and the Impact of a Major Flood Event. Land Economics. 96(3): 366-383.

Rouhi Rad, M., E. Haacker, V. Sharda, S. Nozari, Z. Xiang, A.A. Berhe, V. Uddameri, J.F. Suter, and P. Gowda. 2020. MOD$$AT: A Hydro-economic Modeling Framework for Aquifer Management in Irrigated Agricultural Regions. Agricultural Water Management. 238: 106194.

Zia, A., S. Ding, K.D. Messer, H. Miao, J.F. Suter, J.R. Fooks, T. Guilfoos, S. Trandafir, E. Uchida, Y. Tsai, S. Merrill, S. Turnbull, and C. Koliba. 2020. Characterizing Heterogeneous Behavior of Non-Point Source Polluters in a Spatial Game under Alternate Sensing and Incentive Designs. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. 146(8): 04020054

Suter, J.F., S. Collie, K.D. Messer, J.M. Duke, and H.A. Michael. 2019. Common Pool Resource Management at the Extensive and Intensive Margins: Experimental Evidence. Environmental and Resource Economics. 73: 973-993.             

Palm-Forster, L.H., J.F. Suter, K.D. Messer. 2019. Experimental Evidence on Policy Approaches that Link Agricultural Subsidies to Water Quality Outcomes. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 101(1): 109-133.                                                           

Zhong, Hua, et al. "Who pays for water scarcity? Evaluating the welfare implications of water infrastructure investments for cities." The Annals of Regional Science (2019): 1-42. 

Flyr, Matthew, et al. "Modeling Commercial Demand for Water: Exploring Alternative Prices, Instrumental Variables, and Heterogeneity." Land Economics 95.2 (2019): 211-224. 

Maas, Alexander, et al. "Complements of the house: Estimating demand-side linkages between residential water and electricity." Water Resources and Economics (2019): 100140. 

Boyd, C., D. Davis, L. Garner, M. Germino, M. Eiswerth, S. Boyte, D. Tekiela, K. Mayer, M. Pellant, D. Pyke, M. Ielmini, and S. Franklin. 2020. “Invasive Plant Species.” 59 pp. Chapter 10 in: Tom Remington et al. (Eds.), Sagebrush Conservation Strategy. Draft. Boise, ID: Western Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies. (Peer reviewed.)

Eiswerth, M.E., and G.C. van Kooten. 2019. “Maximizing Returns from Payments for Water-based Ecosystem Services: Incorporating Externality Effects of Land Management.” Journal of the American Water Resources Association 55(5) (October 2019): 1335-1348. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12788.

Florida

Medina, M., R. Huffaker, J. Jawitz, and R. Muñoz-Carpena (2020). Seasonal dynamics of terrestrially sourced nitrogen influenced Karenia brevis blooms off Florida’s southern Gulf Coast. Harmful Algae 98, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2020.101900 . 2.           Huffaker, R. and E. McLamore (2020). A protocol for reconstructing the dynamics of real-world systems from observational data: Application for establishing a digital proxy of a bioreactor (DIYBOT). Protocol Exchange DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.pex-1052/v1. 3.            McLamore, E., R. Huffaker, M. Shupler, K. Ward, S. Palit, A. Datta, M. Banks, G. Casaburi, J. Babilonia, and J. Foster (2020).  Digital Proxy of a Bio-Reactor (DIYBOT) combines sensor data and data analytics to improve greywater treatment and wastewater management systems. Nat. Sci. Rep. 10.8015, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598‐020‐64789‐5. 4.            Medina, M., R. Huffaker, J. Jawitz, and R. Muñoz-Carpena (2019).  Nonlinear dynamics in treatment wetlands: Identifying systematic drivers of non-equilibrium outlet concentrations in Everglades STASs.  Water Resources Research, 55. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR024427

Georgia

Jeffrey Mullen, Agricultural Water Policy during Drought: A Strategy for Including Groundwater Permits in Future Irrigation Buyout Auctions in the Flint River Basin, Water.

Idaho

Awad, K., A. Maas, and C. Wardropper. 2020. “Preferences for Alternative Water Supplies in the Pacific Northwest: A Choice Experiment.” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management.

Maas, A., Wardropper, C., Roesch-McNally, G., & Abatzoglou, J. 2020. “A (mis) alignment of farmer experience and perceptions of climate change in the US inland Pacific Northwest.” Climatic Change, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02713-6

Puri, R. and A. Maas. 2020. “Evaluating the Sensitivity of Residential Water Demand Estimation to Model Specification and Instrument Choices.” Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR026156

Maas, A., J. Burkhardt, C. Goemans, D. Manning, M. Arabi. 2020. “Complements of the house: Estimating demand-side linkages between residential water and electricity.” Water Resources & Economics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wre.2019.02.001

Flyr, M. et al. Modeling Commercial Demand for Water: Exploring Alternative Prices, Instrumental Variables, and Heterogeneity. Land Econ. 95, 211- 224 (2019).

Maas, A., Goemans, C., Manning, D. T., Burkhardt, J. & Arabi, M. Complements of the house: Estimating demand-side linkages between residential water and electricity. Water Resour. Econ. 100140 (2019). doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wre.2019.02.001

Taylor, Garth. (2019).Book Review: “Water Paradox" by E. Barbeir 2019; Water Economics and Policy.

Larson, Ryan Johnson, D. M., John R. McKean, and R. Garth Taylor. 2019 Valuing Snowmobile Recreation. Applied Economics Forthcoming   

Johnson, D. M., John R. McKean, and R. Garth Taylor. Comparing a Hierarchical-Decision Travel Cost Recreation Demand Model to the Traditional Model and Implications for Survey Design. Journal of Leisure Science Forthcoming. 

Levan Elbakidze; Hannah Vinson; Kelly Cobourn; R. Garth Taylor. 2018 "Efficient Groundwater Allocation and Binding Hydrologic Externalities" Environmental and Resource Economics 53(1) 147-161.

Indiana

Schull, V.Z., B.T. Daher, M.W. Gitau, S. Mehan, and D.C. Flanagan. 2020. Analyzing FEW nexus modeling tools for water resources decision-making and management applications. Food and Bioproducts Processing. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fbp.2019.10.011.

Aboelnour, M., M.W.Gitau, and Engel, B. 2020. A comparison of streamflow and baseflow responses to land-use change and the variation in climate parameters using SWAT. Water. 2020, 12(1), 191. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12010191.

Illinois

Singh, S., Bhattarai, R., Negm, L. M., Youssef, M. A., & Pittelkow, C. M. (2020). Evaluation of nitrogen loss reduction strategies using DRAINMOD-DSSAT in east-central Illinois. Agricultural Water Management, 240, 106322.

Li, S., Bhattarai, R., Cooke, R. A., Verma, S., Huang, X., Markus, M., & Christianson, L. (2020). Relative performance of different data mining techniques for nitrate concentration and load estimation in different type of watersheds. Environmental Pollution, 114618.

Jeong, H., Bhattarai, R., Adamowski, J., & David, J. Y. (2020). Insights from socio-hydrological modeling to design sustainable wastewater reuse strategies for agriculture at the watershed scale. Agricultural Water Management, 231, 105983.

Kansas

Pates, N. and N.P. Hendricks. 2020. “Additionality from Payments for Environmental Services with Technology Diffusion.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 102(1): 281-299.

Louisiana (Paudel)

Deborah Williams and Krishna P. Paudel. Migration, Remittance, and Adoption of Conservation Practices. Forthcoming Environmental Management    Santosh Pathak, Hari K. Panta, Thaneshwar Bhandari, and Krishna P. Paudel. Flood Vulnerability and Its Influencing Factors. Forthcoming Natural Hazard    Krishna P. Paudel, Ashok K. Mishra, Mahesh Pandit, Sherry Larkin, Rodrick Rejesus, and Margarita Velandia. 2020. Modeling Multiple Reasons for Adopting Precision Technologies: Evidence from U.S. Cotton Producers. Computer and Electronics in Agriculture 175(August):105625.

Michigan

Rasu, R., A. P. Nejadhashemi, F. Couto Alves, B. Saravi, Evaluating the Applicability of a Soil Moisture-based Metrics for Gauging the Resiliency of Rainfed Agricultural Systems in the Midwestern United States, Soil & Tillage Research, in review.

Minnesota

Levers, L., Pradhananga, A., & Peterson, J. (In review) Whom do you trust? Willingness to accept for perennial crop adoption.

Levers, L., Story, D. & Schwabe, K. (2020). Boons or Boondoggles: An Assessment of Salton Sea Water Importation Proposals. California Agriculture.     

Mississippi

Quintana-Ashwell, N.; Gholson, D.M.; Krutz, L.J.; Henry, C.G.; Cooke, T. Adoption of Water-Conserving Irrigation Practices among Row-Crop Growers in Mississippi, USA. Agronomy 2020, 10, 1083.

Pinnamaneni, S.R., Anapalli, S.S., Reddy, K.N., Fisher, D.K. and Quintana Ashwell, N.E., Assessing irrigation water use efficiency and economy of twin‐row soybean in the Mississippi Delta. Agronomy Journal 2020.

Missouri

Fan, Yubing and Laura McCann, 2020. "Adoption of Pressure Irrigation Systems and Scientific Irrigation Scheduling Practices by U.S. Farmers: An Application of Multilevel Models," Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Vol. 45(2).

Lee, Seungyub and Laura McCann. 2019 “Adoption of Cover Crops by U.S. Soybean Producers.”  Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Vol 51 (4): 527-544.

New Jersey

Karen M. O’Neill and Heather Fenyk. 2019. Engaging the Community to Envision the Coastal Climate Future. Pp. 155-169 in Elizabeth Mossop (ed.). Sustainable Coastal Design and Planning. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

North Carolina

Edwards, E.C. and Guilfoos, T. Forthcoming. The Economics of Groundwater Governance Institutions Across the Globe. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy.

Sanchez, L., Edwards, E.C., and Leonard, B. 2020. The Economics of Indigenous Water Claim Settlements in the American West. Environmental Research Letters, vol. 15, 094027.

Ge, M., Edwards, E.C. and Akhundjanov, S.B. 2020. Irrigation Investment on an American Indian Reservation. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 102(4), pp.1083-1104.

Branan, R., Edwards, E.C., Hutchens, A., and Sutherland, S.A. 2019. How North Carolinians Benefit from Water Pollution Credit Trading. NC State Economist, NC State University College of Ag and Life Science, Fall 2019.

Oklahoma

Samimi, M., Mirchi, A., Bailey, R., Ma, L. SWAT-Salt simulation of salinity in Elephant Butte Irrigation District. 2020 Annual International Meeting of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers; Singh, A., Mirchi, A., Daggubati, S.†, Mirchi, A., Taghvaeian, S. Analysis of Oklahoma’s agro-climatic trends using divisional and mesoscale data. 2020 Annual International Meeting of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers; Sheng, Z., Ahn, S., Jung, C., Park, S., Bailey, R., Granados-Olivas, A., Mirchi, A., Samimi, M., Hargrove, W.L. Coupled SWAT-MODFLOW modeling for determining groundwater sustainability under climate and pumping scenarios in a semi-arid agricultural watershed. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco, California; Singh, A., Daggubati, S., Mirchi, A., Taghvaeian, S. Analysis of rainfall and temperature trends using mesoscale climatological records in Oklahoma, US. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco, CA.;  Samimi, M., Mirchi, A., Townsend, N.T., Gutzler, D.S., Ahn, S., Moriasi, D., Granados-Olivas, Mayer, A., Alian, S., Hargrove, W.L., 2019. Climate change impact assessment for an agricultural watershed in the US Desert Southwest. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco, CA. 

Mirchi, A., Heyman, J., Tchobanoglous, G., Minakata, D., Walker, S., Samimi, M., Guerrero, B., Handler, R. (2019). Community implementation of potable reuse of treated wastewater. In: Halvorsen, K.E., Schelly, C., Handler, R., and Knowlton, J.L. (Eds.). A Research Agenda for Environmental Management. Edward Elgar Publishing. Cheltenham.   

Ahn, S., Abudu, S., Sheng, Z., Mirchi, A., (2018). Hydrologic impacts of drought-adaptive agricultural water management in a semi-arid river basin: Case of Rincon Valley, New Mexico. Agricultural Water Management 209, 206-218.   

Samimi, M., Tahneen Jahan, N.*, Mirchi, A. (2018). Assessment of climate change impacts on surface water hydrologic processes in New Mexico-Texas-Mexico border region. Proceedings of the 2018 World Environmental and Water Resources Congress: Protecting and Securing Water and the Environment for Future Generations, American Society of Civil Engineers. Minneapolis, Minnesota.    

Rhode Island

Weir, M.J., Ashcraft, C.M., Leuchanka Diessner, N., McGreavy, B., Vogler, E. and Guilfoos, T., 2020. Language effects on bargaining. Plos one, 15(3), p.e0229501.

South Carolina

Rouhi Rad, M, Araya, A., & Zambreski, Z. “Downside risk of aquifer depletion.” Irrigation Science (2020).

US Forest Service

Warziniack, T., Sims, C., Haas, J. (2019). Fire and the joint production of ecosystem service: A spatial-dynamic optimization approach, Forest Policy and Economics. (refereed) [1]

Warziniack, T., Brown, T.C., (2019). The importance of municipal and agricultural demands in future water shortages in the United States, Environmental Resource Letters.

Wang, A., Nong, D., Countryman, A., Corbett, J.J., Warziniack, T. (2020). Potential impacts of ballast water regulations on international trade, shipping patterns, and the global economy: An integrated transportation and economic modeling assessment, Journal of Environmental Management 275.

Heidari, H. Arabi, M., Warziniack, T., Kao, S. (2020). Assessing Shifts in Regional Hydroclimatic Conditions of U.S. River Basins in Response to Climate Change over the 21st Century. Earth's Future.

Heidari, H., Arabi, M., Ghanbari, M., Warziniack, T. (2020). A Probabilistic Approach for Characterization of Sub-Annual Socioeconomic Drought Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) Relationships in a Changing Environment, Water 12 (6).

Champ, P.A., Meldrum, J., Brenkert-Smith, H., Warziniack, T., Barth, C.M., ... (2020). Do actions speak louder than words? Comparing the effect of risk aversion on objective and self-reported mitigation measures, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 169, 301-313