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Abstract
Estimating the demand curve for farm irrigation
water is a matter of serious concern in most of the
Western States today and may be so in portions of
the humid East in the near future. Farmers and
other users have filed claims to all readily available
streamflow, and private and public agencies have
exhausted nearly all low-cost storage sites. Additional
water can be made available only at much
higher costs. If these higher costs are to be repaid,
facilities must be designed to be utilized to their full
capacity. Such designs must take into account the
slope and position of the demand curve for irrigation
water. The results presented here should be
useful to project planners undertaking to determine
the feasibility of proposed water projects. These
results will also provide guides for allocating water
supplies in multiple-use projects among various
users, and they will help water agency managers
to assess how proposed price schedules will affect
income accounts for their farmer patrons. The authors
wish to thank B. C. French, G. W. Dean, J. N.
• oles, H. 0. Carter, and G. A. King for their comments
and suggestions. This project was supported
by the Water Resources Center, University of
California.