Managing Competing Demands on a Scarce Natural Resource: Non-Market Allocation of Water in the Columbia River Basin

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"The thesis of this paper is that our focus on coordination and planning has led to repeated failures to allocate water resources in the Columbia River Basin to their highest-valued uses, although there are limited examples of agencies beginning to rely on contractual understandings and trade-offs. These new understandings and the example of withdrawal rights exercized by irrigation districts can be expanded in the direction of market-based mechanisms."

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water resources, Columbia River, rivers, IASC

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