Governing Scarcity: Water Markets, Equity and Efficiency in pre-1950s Eastern Spain

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7558
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Type:	Journal Article
Author:	Garrido, Samuel
Journal:	International Journal of the Commons
Volume:	5
Page(s):	513-534
Date:	2011
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7558
Sector:	Water Resource & Irrigation
Region:	Europe
Subject(s):	efficiency equity irrigation water management
Abstract:	"It is usually taken for granted that the existence of water markets allows economic efficiency gains to be achieved at the expense of equity losses. This paper addresses the issue by analysing the functioning of the irrigation communities in pre-1950s eastern Spain. While in some of them the water inhered in the land and could not be sold, in others there were tradable water rights. In the paper it is shown that in the former not only was equity greater, but in fact the resource was also used more efficiently."

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