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| DOI | 10.3390/hydrology11010005 |
| Agricultural Water Footprints and Productivity in the Colorado River Basin | |
| Frisvold, George B.; Duval, Dari | |
| 发表日期 | 2024 |
| EISSN | 2306-5338 |
| 起始页码 | 11 |
| 结束页码 | 1 |
| 卷号 | 11期号:1 |
| 英文摘要 | The Colorado River provides water to 40 million people in the U.S. Southwest, with river basin spanning 250,000 square miles (647,497 km2). Quantitative water rights assigned to U.S. states, Mexico, and tribes in the Colorado Basin exceed annual streamflows. Climate change is expected to limit streamflows further. To balance water demands with supplies, unprecedented water-use cutbacks have been proposed, primarily for agriculture, which consumes more than 60% of the Basin's water. This study develops county-level, Basin-wide measures of agricultural economic water productivity, water footprints, and irrigation cash rent premiums, to inform conservation programs and compensation schemes. These measures identify areas where conservation costs in terms of foregone crop production or farm income are high or low. Crop sales averaged USD 814 per acre foot (AF) (USD 0.66/m3) of water consumed in the Lower Basin and 131 USD/AF (USD 0.11/m3) in the Upper Basin. Crop sales minus crop-specific input costs averaged 485 USD/AF (USD 0.39/m3) in the Lower Basin and 93 USD/AF (USD 0.08 per m3) in the Upper Basin. The blue water footprint (BWF) was 1.2 AF/USD 1K (1480 m3/USD1K) of water per thousand dollars of crop sales in the Lower Basin and 7.6 AF/USD 1K (9374 m3/USD1K) in the Upper Basin. Counties with higher water consumption per acre have a lower BWF. |
| 英文关键词 | fallowing and forbearance; economic water productivity; blue water footprint; cash rents; drought mitigation; water policy; value of agricultural water; compensation; Inflation Reduction Act |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS研究方向 | Water Resources |
| WOS类目 | Water Resources |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:001148845800001 |
| 来源期刊 | HYDROLOGY
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/298390 |
| 作者单位 | University of Arizona |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Frisvold, George B.,Duval, Dari. Agricultural Water Footprints and Productivity in the Colorado River Basin[J],2024,11(1). |
| APA | Frisvold, George B.,&Duval, Dari.(2024).Agricultural Water Footprints and Productivity in the Colorado River Basin.HYDROLOGY,11(1). |
| MLA | Frisvold, George B.,et al."Agricultural Water Footprints and Productivity in the Colorado River Basin".HYDROLOGY 11.1(2024). |
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