modeling impacts of policy responses to prolonged and severe drought in the upper rio grande river...
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Modeling Impacts of Policy Responses to Prolonged and Severe Drought in the
Upper Rio Grande River Basin
Dr. James F. Booker, Siena College
Douglas T. Hickey Professor of Business and Associate Professor of Economics
Ari M. Michelsen, Texas A&M University, El Paso
Frank A. Ward, New Mexico State University
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Drought is a human construct and may relate to hydrologic,
ecologic, or economic impacts
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Policy Responses
• Endangered Species Protections
• Realistic incentives including pricing
• Regional water reallocations
• Interstate water reallocations
• Do nothing
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Modeling impacts of policy responses
• Physical impacts on flows, stocks, and uses
• Distribution of economic impacts– by region and state– by use sector (agricultural, municipal)
• Efficiency impacts
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Long term reforms
• Environmental protections
• Realistic incentives
• Reallocation from agriculture to other uses
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Drought as catalyst for institutional change
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Allocating the Colorado RiverOctober 17, 2002:
• “Southern California water officials agreed Wednesday to shift water from desert farms to San Diego.”
• “The farmers would be paid $258 to $400 an acre-foot for water that costs them $15.50 per acre-foot.”
Source: Los Angeles Times
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Shores of Lake Mead:
Las Vegas Valley Water District
Lake Powell at Hite Marina:
Living Rivers
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Introduction
• About the upper Rio Grande
• Modeling extended drought and policy responses
• Physical and economic impacts
• Extensions to other river basins
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How much water is in this river?(annual mean flow in million acre-feet)
Mississippi 340
Colorado 16
Hudson 10
Rio Grande 2
Schoharie Creek 1
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Rio Grande Headwaters, Colorado, USA
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Rio Grande Headwaters, Colorado: Supply 660,000 Ac-Ft / Yr
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Rio Grande Gorge: Northern New Mexico
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Rio Puerco, New Mexico: Supplies 32,000 Ac-Ft /Yr
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Rio Grande, Southern New Mexico Ag Uses 495,000 Ac-Ft / Yr
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Rio Grande at El Paso, Texas: M&I Uses 140,000 Ac-Ft / Yr
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Rio Grande at Juarez, Mexico: Ag Uses 60,000 Ac-Ft / Yr
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Who gets what: existing policies
• Interstate compacts and treaties
• State water allocation institutions
• Allocations within federal irrigation projects
• Reservoir operating rules
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Rio Grande Compact: Entitlement=f(inflows)
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Basic Dynamic Model of a Rio Grande Type System
• Depletable reservoir/aquifer (and no pumping constraint)
• Variable surface flow
• Two users
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If ground and surface water are perfect substitutes, and there are no annual pumping or diversion limits, then the problem of
dynamically allocating surface water flows tx between users 1 and 2, and a groundwater stock Z over time can be written as
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T h is d e sc r ib e s p e r fec t co n ju n c tive u se , and the so lu t io n is to u se ava ila b le su p p lie s to g ene ra te co n sta n t d isco u n ted m a rg in a l ren ts a c ro s s tim e , so u rce , a n d sp a ce :
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Background
• Ward et al. Institutional Adjustments for Coping With Prolonged and Severe Drought in the Rio Grande Basin, WRRI Technical Completion Report No. 317, Feb. 2001.
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The Rio Grande Setting
• Highly variable river basin inflows• Extensive use and availability of renewable
and non-renewable groundwater• Reservoir storage equal to several years
average annual inflow• Rapidly growing (3+ %) urban population;
agriculture uses ~90% of surface water• Presence of an endangered species
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Rio Grande at Del Norte
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Albuquerque water demand growth
Source: City of Albuquerque, Public Works Dept., 1997
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Endangered Species and the Rio Grande
• September 19, 2002: “A judge on Wednesday ordered federal water managers to release water earmarked for cities and irrigators to keep the Rio Grande flowing for the endangered silvery minnow.”
• October 18, 2002: “Water Release Halted. The decision by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals means the endangered silvery minnow is on its own this autumn …. ‘That really means the end of the silvery minnow in the river.’ ”
Source: Albuquerque Journal
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Endangered Species: the Rio Grande silvery minnow - distribution
Source: Desert Fishes Council
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Rio Grande Basin Water Budget, Normal Year
Rio Grande Headwaters 660Conejos River (3 gages) 346 339 Colorado Ag Northern NM Mts 139Rio Chama 346 60 SeepageJemez River 45 60 EvaporationAlbuquerque M&I 60 100 Central NM Ag (MRG)Rio Puerco 32 135 Riparian VegetationRio Salado 41 180 Elephant Butte Evap
495 Southern NM Ag (EBID)140 El Paso M&I236 Texas Ag
60 Mexico Ag
Supply Demand (Depletion)
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Rio Grande Model (RMA)
• Flows (instream, surface and groundwater inflows, diversions, pumping from groundwater, return flows, conveyance losses)
• Stocks (nonrenewable groundwater, reservoirs)
• Lags (shallow groundwater availability and surface recharge, riparian usage)
• Institutions
• Net economic benefits of water use by sector, region, and year (projected 40 years)
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Flows at Otowi
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Drought Scenarios: 6 year future projection
• 100% of historic median flows
• 75% of median
• 50% of median
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Policy scenarios
• Law of the River (do nothing)
• Intra compact water bank
• Interstate water bank
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Law of the River Drought Damages
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Change in Use with Intracompact Banking
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Change in use between intracompact banking and interstate banking
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Change in Benefits with Intracompact Banking
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Change in benefits between intracompact banking and interstate banking
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Specific conclusions
• Monetary drought damages are small in relation to regional economic activity
• Interstate compact results in concentrated impacts on users at the “end of the pipe.”
• Policy change can reduce 1/3 of drought damages: maybe drought will not be a catalyst for change here.
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General conclusions I
• Regional (often intrastate) policy changes achieve most of the possible efficiency gains.
=> INCREASED FLEXIBILITY IN WATER ALLOCATION AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL CAN ACHIEVE MOST OF THE POSSIBLE EFFICIENCY GAINS.
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General conclusions II
Interstate agricultural productivity differences lead to only modest gains from interstate water banks.
=> Interstate water banking will in many (most?) cases simply transfer agricultural activity. (Municipal demands can be met regionally.)
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Interpreting aggregated models: Historic low flow days vs. annual flow
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What is an “extreme” drought?
• Major crop/pasture losses;
• extreme fire danger; • widespread water
shortages or restrictions
• Palmer Drought Index : -4.0 to-4.9
• Soil moisture percentile: 3-5%
• Streamflow percentile: 3-5%
• Standardized Precipitation Index:-1.6 to-1.96
Source: National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln