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  • A Water Rights Trading Approach to Increasing Inflows to the Aral Sea

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    Author(s)
    Bekchanov, Maksud
    Ringler, Claudia
    Bhaduri, Anik
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    Bhaduri, Anik
    Year published
    2018
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    Abstract
    Tremendous development of irrigation since the 1960s combined with unbalanced water resources management led to the destruction of the ecosystems in the delta zone and the gradual desiccation of the Aral Sea, once the fourth largest freshwater lake of the world. Command‐and‐control‐based water management in the Aral Sea basin inherited from Soviet times did not create any incentives for investing in improved irrigation infrastructure, adopt water‐wise approaches, and thus maintain flows into the Aral Sea. This study examined the potential for market‐based water allocation to increase inflows to the Aral Sea while maintaining ...
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    Tremendous development of irrigation since the 1960s combined with unbalanced water resources management led to the destruction of the ecosystems in the delta zone and the gradual desiccation of the Aral Sea, once the fourth largest freshwater lake of the world. Command‐and‐control‐based water management in the Aral Sea basin inherited from Soviet times did not create any incentives for investing in improved irrigation infrastructure, adopt water‐wise approaches, and thus maintain flows into the Aral Sea. This study examined the potential for market‐based water allocation to increase inflows to the Aral Sea while maintaining stable agricultural incomes. We find that a water trading system can improve inflows to the Aral Sea but would require significant compensation for agricultural producers. Agricultural producers can use the compensation payments to cope with reduced water supply by improving irrigation and conveyance efficiencies and by developing alternative rural activities such as livestock grazing, agro‐processing, and cultivation of low water‐consumptive crops. We also find that a water trading system would be more efficient if it includes both trade among irrigation sites and between sites and instream uses.
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    Journal Title
    Land Degradation & Development
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2394
    Copyright Statement
    © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: A Water Rights Trading Approach to Increasing Inflows to the Aral Sea, Land Degradation and Development, Volume 29, Issue 4, Pages 952-961, 2018, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2394. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
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    This publication has been entered into Griffith Research Online as an Advanced Online Version.
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    Chemical sciences
    Earth sciences
    Environmental sciences
    Environment and resource economics
    Experimental economics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/173687
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