@article{Wittwer:330982,
      recid = {330982},
      author = {Wittwer, Glyn and Stringer, Randy},
      title = {Modelling the Impact of Environmental Policy Reforms on  Water Markets and Irrigation Use in Australia},
      address = {2002},
      pages = {16},
      year = {2002},
      note = {Presented at the 5th Annual Conference on Global Economic  Analysis, Taipei, Taiwan},
      abstract = {This paper explores the key factors motivating change in  national, regional and local water institutions and  examines how the resulting policy reforms affect water  markets and water use. FEDSA-WATER, a national level CGE  model of Australia is used to examine the removal of  implicit subsidies on water usage in irrigation industries  in New South Wales and Victoria, and the removal of small  implicit taxes on usage in South Australia, for the various  irrigation industries. A second scenario taxes producers  for salinity. In the water pricing reform scenario, there  is a redistribution of irrigation activity to South  Australia with pricing reforms. There is an overall decline  in agricultural output but this is outweighed by the  benefit in terms of reduced salinity damage. Similarly, in  the case of taxing producers for the full cost of salinity  damage, the benefit of reduced salinity outweighs the  reduction in national income.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/330982},
}