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Groundwater Management Policy Evaluation with a Spatial-

Dynamic Hydro-Economic Modeling Framework

Presented by Aaron Hrozencik

Dr. Dale Manning

Dr. Jordan Suter

Dr. Chris Goemans

Dr. Ryan Bailey

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Motivation

Challenges associated with managing spatial and temporal dynamics in common pool resources

β€’ Fisheries

β€’ Ecosystem Biodiversity

β€’ Wildlife

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Research Question:What is the value of spatially differentiated

policies to reach common groundwater

conservation goals?

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Contribution to literature

β€’ Nested governance, spatially explicit policies

Dietz, Ostrom & Stern, 2003; Sanchirico & Wilen, 2005; Edwards, 2016

β€’ Economic literature assessing gains to groundwater management

Gisser & Sanchez, 1980; Feinerman & Knapp, 1983; Brill & Burness, 1994; Rubio & Casino, 2001

β€’ Economics of spatially explicit groundwater utilizing insights from hydrology

Saak and Peterson, 2007; Brozovic et al., 2010; Pfeiffer and Lin, 2012; Guilfoos et al., 2013, Foster et al., 2014

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Groundwater Terminology

Saturated thickness –vertical distance of aquifer permeated by water

Hydraulic conductivity –potential velocity of lateral groundwater

Well capacity (yield) –max flow rate that a well can sustain over a period of time (gallons per minute)

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Microeconomic Foundations

Stage 1: Planting Decision

max𝐴𝑖𝑗𝐸 𝑗=1

𝐽𝑝𝑗𝐴𝑖𝑗𝑓𝑗 𝑀𝑖𝑗; 𝑐𝑖𝑑 , πœƒπ‘–π‘‘ , πœ™π‘– , 𝑗=1

𝐽𝐴𝑖𝑗 βˆ’ π΄π‘–π‘—π‘Ÿπ΄π‘— βˆ’ π΄π‘–π‘—π‘€π‘–π‘—π‘Ÿπ‘€

Stage 2: Groundwater Pumping Decision

max𝑀𝑖𝑗 π‘—βˆˆπ‘… 𝑝𝑗 𝐴𝑖𝑗𝑓𝑗 𝑀𝑖𝑗; 𝑐𝑖𝑑 , πœƒπ‘–π‘‘ , πœ™π‘– , 𝐴𝑖𝑗 βˆ’ π΄π‘–π‘—π‘€π‘–π‘—π‘Ÿπ‘€

πœƒπ‘–π‘‘ ~ (πœ‡, 𝜎2)

Assumes inter-seasonal myopic behavior (Foster et al. 2014)

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Microeconomic Foundations: Policy Options

Stage 1:

max𝐴𝑖𝑗𝐸 𝑗=1

𝐽𝑝𝑗𝐴𝑖𝑗𝑓𝑗 𝑀𝑖𝑗; 𝑐𝑖𝑑 , πœƒπ‘–π‘‘, πœ™π‘– , 𝐴𝑖𝑗 βˆ’ 𝐴𝑖𝑗(π‘Ÿπ΄π‘—+𝜏𝐴) βˆ’ 𝐴𝑖𝑗𝑀𝑖𝑗(π‘Ÿπ‘€+ πœπ‘€)

subject to 𝑗=1𝐽𝑀𝑖𝑗 ≀ π‘Š

β€’ Planting Tax

β€’ Pumping Tax

β€’ Quota

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Hydro-Economic Model

Agronomic

Model

(Aquacrop)

Economic

Model

Hydrologic

Model

(RRCA

MODFLOW)

Hydrologic Model for RRCA designed by Slattery and Hendrix Engineering, downloaded from www.republicanrivercompact.org

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Dynamic Linking

Groundwater levels

Well capacity

Pumping quantity

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Results: Profit Path for 25% Reduction in Groundwater Pumping

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Results: Uniform Policy Costs and Benefits after 50 years

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Results: Spatially Differentiated Policy Costs and Benefits after 50 years

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GWMD Results

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Uniform Policy Spatially Differentiated Policy

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Discussion

How do results inform management strategies for spatially dynamic common pool resources?

β€’ Hydraulic conductivity and initial average well capacity define which GWMDs are targeted in spatially differentiated policy

β€’ Incentives and disincentives for cooperation among GWMDs

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Future Work

β€’ Distributional impacts of spatially differentiated policies.

β€’ Utilize survey instrument to elicit groundwater user preferences over management policies.

β€’ Efficiency of voting mechanisms in groundwater management policy selection.

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Questions?

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β€’ Appendix

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Pumping by well capacity bins

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Simulated Pumping

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Simulated Pumping

Sandy Soil in North Region Sandy Soil in South Region

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Agronomic Model (AquaCrop)

Generates water-crop yield production functions for

heterogeneous groundwater users accounting for variation

in:

β€’ Soil Type

β€’ Climate Zone

β€’ Weather Realization

β€’ Well Capactiy

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Well Capacity

β€’ Maximum flow rate (gpm) that can be sustained over a period of time

Source: United States Geological Survey

Return

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The Case for Spatially Differentiated Policies

Homogeneous Aquifer Saturated Thickness

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Microeconomic Foundations: Policy Options

Stage 1:

max𝐴𝑖𝑗𝐸 𝑗=1

𝐽𝑝𝑗𝐴𝑖𝑗𝑓𝑗 𝑀𝑖𝑗; 𝑐𝑖𝑑 , πœƒπ‘–π‘‘, πœ™π‘– , 𝐴𝑖𝑗 βˆ’ 𝐴𝑖𝑗(π‘Ÿπ΄π‘—+𝜏𝐴) βˆ’ 𝐴𝑖𝑗𝑀𝑖𝑗(π‘Ÿπ‘€+ πœπ‘€)

subject to 𝑗=1𝐽𝑀𝑖𝑗 ≀ π‘Š

β€’ Planting Tax

β€’ Pumping Tax

β€’ Quota

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Three management policies to address over-pumping of aquifer

β€’ Qty restrict

β€’ Uniform pumping tax

β€’ Irrigated acreage fee

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Table of policy type and levels

β€’ What do the spatially differentiated policies look like?

β€’ How did we characterize the heterogeneity of the spatial externality of pumping across GWMDs to inform the creation of the spatially differentiated policies

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