Talk:Water trading

Suggested Changes/Edits (also suggested outline of article)
More precise definition of “water trading” (right to use/access- amount used by whom) versus “water quality trading” (right to pollute, part of water quality regulation). (There is also plain selling of water, like Russia’s large freshwater supply). History of water trading -- when did it begin? where? how did it come about?
 * 1) General

Current state of water trading- what are the different manifestations of water trading today? is it mainly managed by government or private industry? are water markets more formal or informal?

Economics of water trading; briefly explain conceptually how it works according to Pareto Criterion/Coase Theorem Free-markets vs. government regulation -- when is government intervention necessary/helpful in water trading markets? what level of government (i.e. federal, state, or local) intervention or management is helpful and in what circumstance?

Challenges of water markets -- third party effects


 * 2) Applications of Water Trading

Agriculture (e.g. irrigation)

Water quality?

Urban drinking water supply


 * 3) Case Studies

Murray-Darling Basin to Australia section

water markets in the United States

water markets (or future emergence of?) in Spain

India


 * 4) References/suggested reading

Update as needed (based on sources used)

Suggested Bibliography

Chong, H, and Sunding, D. 2006. Water markets and trading. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 31: 239-264.

Dinar, A, Rosegrant, M.W, Meinzen-Dick, R. 1997. Water allocation mechanisms. The World Bank, Policy Research Working Paper 1779.

Donohew, Z. 2009. Property rights and western United States water markets. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 53: 85-103.

Grafton, R.Q, Landry, C, Libecap, G.D, O’Brien, R.J. 2009. Water markets: Australia’s Murray-Darling basin and the US Southwest. Paper presented at “Workshop on Property Rights, Markets, and the Environment”, Property and Environment Research Center, Bozeman, MT, August 31-September 4, 2009.

Heaney, A, Dwyer, G, Beare, S, Peterson, D, and Pechey, L. 2006. Third-party effects of water trading and potential policy resources. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resources Economics 50: 277-293.

Honey-Roses, J. 2009. Reviewing the arguments for market based approaches to water distribution: A critical assessment for sustainable water management in Spain. Sustainable Development 17: 257-264.

Olmstead, S.M. 2010. The economics of managing scarce water resources. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 4: 179-198.

Olmstead, S.M. 2010. The economics of water quality. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 4: 44-62.

Tisdell, J. 2010. Acquiring water for environmental use in Australia: An analysis of policy options. Water Resources Management 24: 1515-1530.

http://water.epa.gov/type/watersheds/trading.cfm  Gwaleko (talk) 16:31, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Classmates suggestions

 * A few suggestions: The ones listed below (moved above to retain the chronologic order of the discussion --Elekhh (talk) 00:04, 12 April 2011 (UTC)) look good! I would also recommend neatening and focusing the lead of the article. The economics section should be expanded. The sections on the U.S. and U.K. are too short, especially relative to the others, so they should be bulked up as well. The article also needs more references, but it looks like that is being worked on. Overall, I would like to see more discussion on water trading in general - what it means, the theory behind it, etc. Case studies are good, but I think in the current article they should be balanced with more info on water trading itself. Are there any critiques of water trading, or instances where it was done poorly? If so, you might want to add a section along those lines. It looks like your suggested outline touches on a lot of this, though, so well done! Lmissik (talk) 22:30, 7 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Professor Richards wants us to discuss environmental policy in the US. So I think you need to concentrate on policy issues and geographically on US. It looks like you started from Australia, Asia etc. and when you came to US you slowed down. You should realize, that we don't have enough time to discuss our environmental policy topics at a global scale. If I were you, I would stop expanding article except US section. Aliaksei Babko, 8 April 2011 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.223.152.238 (talk) 08:01, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

I agree that you should pay more efforts on environmental policy. You present internationalcases in your passage, so you'd better also give some ccorresponding policies or history in other part.Gaob (talk) 18:08, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Good work thus far. I would agree with Aliaksei in that you should probably abandon abroad water trading at this point and focus on the states - especially CA since I know they've been dealing with water issues for almost a century. I'm sure you still have more to include but I would definitely recommend getting to this if you haven't gathered a lot of information on this as of now. Technically, I think the page looks good. You've done a good job with bullets, bolding, ect... A picture or two would be nice, but I know it is pretty difficult to get these on to a page so don't take too much time doing this if it is going to be a hassle. I like that you have lists like the "barriers"-though I've noticed that you don't always go into detail with these. Some of them may seem trivial to a policy student, but you may want to explain all of these and how they pertain to water trading. Good job though and good luck with the rest of the article! Ejking311 (talk) 01:46, 27 April 2011 (UTC)Ejking311

Elliot's suggestions
Excellent article. Perhaps, could you provide a supply-demand curve that articulate the efficiency gains of establishing a water market. I think that would make the article a little more navigable, and as as visual learner I think that could be quite useful. For instance, there's a line that reads "economic theory suggests trade in water rights is a way to reallocate water from less to more economically productive activities", it would be nice to actually graphically display the underlying marginal analysis that conveys the efficiency gains to be made. Goldmund 722 (talk) 18:17, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program course assignment
This article is the subject of an educational assignment at Indiana University supported by WikiProject United States Public Policy and the Wikipedia Ambassador Program&#32;during the 2011 Spring term. Further details are available on the course page.

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