@article{Huffaker:176282,
      recid = {176282},
      author = {Huffaker, Ray and Whittlesey, Norman},
      title = {The allocative efficiency and conservation potential of  water laws encouraging investments in on-farm irrigation  technology},
      journal = {Agricultural Economics: The Journal of the International  Association of Agricultural Economists},
      address = {2000-12},
      number = {968-2016-75333},
      pages = {14},
      year = {2000},
      abstract = {Agricultural water conservation statutes are emerging in  the West encouraging private irrigators to improve on-farm  irrigation
efficiency as a basinwide conservation measure.  We investigate whether private improvements promote the  economic
efficiency and conservation of water use basinwide  under a wide variety of hydroeconomic circumstances. The  standard of
efficiency is how an irrigation district  manager should optimally invest in improving the irrigation  efficiencies of individual
farms located along a stream  while internalizing intrabasin allocative externalities of  these investments. The results indicate
that the popular  Oregon legislative model may be the least effective in  conserving water and promoting economically efficient
water  allocation.© 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights  reserved.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/176282},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.176282},
}