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dc.contributor.authorAyer, H. W.
dc.contributor.authorGapp, D. W.
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-05T15:51:18Z
dc.date.available2013-09-05T15:51:18Z
dc.date.issued1978-04-15
dc.identifier.issn0272-6106
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/301136
dc.descriptionFrom 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, Arizonaen_US
dc.description.abstractThe 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.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherArizona-Nevada Academy of Scienceen_US
dc.rightsCopyright ©, where appropriate, is held by the author.en_US
dc.subjectHydrology -- Arizona.en_US
dc.subjectWater resources development -- Arizona.en_US
dc.subjectHydrology -- Southwestern states.en_US
dc.subjectWater resources development -- Southwestern states.en_US
dc.subjectCostsen_US
dc.subjectCost-benefit analysisen_US
dc.subjectEconomic predictionen_US
dc.subjectEconomic justificationen_US
dc.subjectWater supplyen_US
dc.subjectHydrologic budgeten_US
dc.subjectUrban hydrologyen_US
dc.subjectWater ratesen_US
dc.subjectGroundwater budgeten_US
dc.subjectPolitical constraintsen_US
dc.subjectLinear programmingen_US
dc.subjectIrrigation wateren_US
dc.subjectMunicipal wateren_US
dc.subjectCompeting usesen_US
dc.subjectLegal aspectsen_US
dc.subjectTucsonen_US
dc.subjectArizonaen_US
dc.subjectAssociated costsen_US
dc.subjectElectric power costsen_US
dc.titleRising Energy Prices, Water Demand by Peri-Urban Agriculture, and Implications for Urban Water Supply: The Tucson Caseen_US
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dc.typeProceedingsen_US
dc.contributor.departmentNatural Resource Economics Division, USDAen_US
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Arizonaen_US
dc.identifier.journalHydrology and Water Resources in Arizona and the Southwesten_US
dc.description.collectioninformationThis article is part of the Hydrology and Water Resources in Arizona and the Southwest collections. Digital access to this material is made possible by the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science and the University of Arizona Libraries. For more information about items in this collection, contact anashydrology@gmail.com.en_US
refterms.dateFOA2018-08-16T23:40:04Z
html.description.abstractThe 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.


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