Rising Energy Prices, Water Demand by Peri-Urban Agriculture, and Implications for Urban Water Supply: The Tucson Case
dc.contributor.author | Ayer, H. W. | |
dc.contributor.author | Gapp, D. W. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-09-05T15:51:18Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-09-05T15:51:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1978-04-15 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0272-6106 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/301136 | |
dc.description | From the Proceedings of the 1978 Meetings of the Arizona Section - American Water Resources Assn. and the Hydrology Section - Arizona Academy of Science - April 14-15, 1978, Flagstaff, Arizona | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The city of Tucson, Arizona, the largest city in the U.S. to meet its water needs entirely from diminishing underground sources, is presently experiencing increasing water rates and the political turmoil associated with those increases. With focus upon this increasingly serious problem, production function analysis and static linear programming are used here to estimate the impact of rising energy prices on farm profits, cropping patterns and irrigation water used in the Avra Valley, a periurban irrigated region adjacent to Tucson, in an effort to evaluate the impact of this community upon Tucson 's municipal water demand. It is concluded that as energy prices increase and land is removed from agricultural production within the Avra Valley, Tucson 's economic position will be bolstered in at least three ways: (1) there will be more water available, (2) the price which the city must pay for farmland in order to gain control of the underlying water should be diminished and the quantity of farmland for sale increased, and (3) with fewer people involved in irrigated agriculture, legal conflicts between competing users will be diminished. | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright ©, where appropriate, is held by the author. | en_US |
dc.subject | Hydrology -- Arizona. | en_US |
dc.subject | Water resources development -- Arizona. | en_US |
dc.subject | Hydrology -- Southwestern states. | en_US |
dc.subject | Water resources development -- Southwestern states. | en_US |
dc.subject | Costs | en_US |
dc.subject | Cost-benefit analysis | en_US |
dc.subject | Economic prediction | en_US |
dc.subject | Economic justification | en_US |
dc.subject | Water supply | en_US |
dc.subject | Hydrologic budget | en_US |
dc.subject | Urban hydrology | en_US |
dc.subject | Water rates | en_US |
dc.subject | Groundwater budget | en_US |
dc.subject | Political constraints | en_US |
dc.subject | Linear programming | en_US |
dc.subject | Irrigation water | en_US |
dc.subject | Municipal water | en_US |
dc.subject | Competing uses | en_US |
dc.subject | Legal aspects | en_US |
dc.subject | Tucson | en_US |
dc.subject | Arizona | en_US |
dc.subject | Associated costs | en_US |
dc.subject | Electric power costs | en_US |
dc.title | Rising Energy Prices, Water Demand by Peri-Urban Agriculture, and Implications for Urban Water Supply: The Tucson Case | en_US |
dc.type | text | en_US |
dc.type | Proceedings | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Natural Resource Economics Division, USDA | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | University of Arizona | en_US |
dc.identifier.journal | Hydrology and Water Resources in Arizona and the Southwest | en_US |
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refterms.dateFOA | 2018-08-16T23:40:04Z | |
html.description.abstract | The city of Tucson, Arizona, the largest city in the U.S. to meet its water needs entirely from diminishing underground sources, is presently experiencing increasing water rates and the political turmoil associated with those increases. With focus upon this increasingly serious problem, production function analysis and static linear programming are used here to estimate the impact of rising energy prices on farm profits, cropping patterns and irrigation water used in the Avra Valley, a periurban irrigated region adjacent to Tucson, in an effort to evaluate the impact of this community upon Tucson 's municipal water demand. It is concluded that as energy prices increase and land is removed from agricultural production within the Avra Valley, Tucson 's economic position will be bolstered in at least three ways: (1) there will be more water available, (2) the price which the city must pay for farmland in order to gain control of the underlying water should be diminished and the quantity of farmland for sale increased, and (3) with fewer people involved in irrigated agriculture, legal conflicts between competing users will be diminished. |