Title

Bankruptcy Methods For Resolving Water Resources Conflicts

Abstract

The growing water demand and limited water supply have caused water resources bankruptcy, resulting in failure of many water resources systems around the world to meet the imposed demands by the users. Water resources bankruptcy is associated with conflicts among the beneficiaries whose demands/claims exceed the total available water. Therefore, developing fair allocation rules that minimize tensions between the beneficiaries of water resource systems is essential to establish sustainable water resource governance systems. This study suggests application of bankruptcy rules to develop fair water allocation schemes. To underline the utility of bankruptcy rules in resolving water resources conflicts a range of bankruptcy rules, namely the Proportional (P), Adjusted Proportional (AP), Constrained Equal Award (CEA), Constrained Equal Loss (CEL), Talmud (Tal) and Piniles (Pin) rules, are reviewed and applied to a hypothetical groundwater bankruptcy problem. In this problem the total water demand of three farmers, based on their water rights, exceeds the safe yield of the aquifer. The differences between the obtained results based on the different bankruptcy rules are discussed and the most acceptable rules for the example case are recognized based on the Plurality rule. © 2012 ASCE.

Publication Date

9-17-2012

Publication Title

World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2012: Crossing Boundaries, Proceedings of the 2012 Congress

Number of Pages

2247-2252

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784412312.226

Socpus ID

84866103297 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84866103297

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