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Water Market Modeling in Response to Water Resources Allocation Challenges in Orumieh River Basin

Mohammadi Azar, Nasim | 2017

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 49684 (19)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Civil Engineering
  6. Advisor(s): Abrishamchi, Ahmad; Arhami, Mohammad
  7. Abstract:
  8. In recent years, water issues have been the focus of increasing international concern and debate. Agriculture is not only the world's largest water user in terms of volume, it is also a relatively low-value, low-efficiency water user. These facts are forcing governments and donors to rethink the economic, social and environmental implications of irrigation projects. Population growth, increase in water demand, the extended drought and utilization of too much water for agricultural, have been made water conflicts over water resources. Due to the drought has a significant economic and social impact on the irrigated agricultural sector, Water markets based on transferable water rights developed as asolution to these problems. Markets are powerful institutions for resource allocation that allow water users to make complex decisions about who should use water, where, and for what. The objective of this research is to present modeling of the irrigation water market and analysis of economic impacts of water markets in the Zarinerud sub-basin of the Orumieh River basin. The positive mathematical Programming models have been developed to estimate the water demand function in seven regions and estimate the expected pay for water in each region. Simulation of basin with WEAP model have been determined the supply amount of water and then the equilibrium price of water have been estimated in water market. The expansion opportunities, estimating user willingness to pay for additional water and economic impacts of the water market have been investigated. The results shows that by applying the proposed water market, an increase in whole economic benefit of the region and the improvement in water resources in the Orumieh River basin can be seen
  9. Keywords:
  10. Water Market ; Equilibrium Price ; Water Supply and Demand Management ; Water Supply ; Lake Urmia Watershed ; Water Resources Allocation ; Water Demand ; Positive Mathematical Programming

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