New Mexico State University
  Water Economics and Policy Research:   Results, Data, Photos, Models
  Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business
  May 2012
RESEARCH RESULTS (for non-commercial and educational use only. Please ask publisher for use permission)  
  Economic Costs of Sustaining Water Supplies: Findings from the Rio Grande
  Economics of Agricultural Water Conservation: Empirical Analysis and Policy Implications
  Cost Benefit and Water Resources Policy: A Survey
  Gains from Improved Irrigation Water Use Efficiency in Egypt
  Water Right Prices in the Rio Grande: Analysis and Policy Implications
  Improved Water Institutions for Food Security and Rural Livelihoods in Afghanistan’s Balkh Basin
  Gains From Expanded Irrigation Water Trading in Egypt: An Integrated Basin Approach
  Financing Irrigation Water Management and Infrastructure: A Review
  Efficient Water Conservation in Agriculture for Growing Urban Water Demands in Jordan
  Basin Impacts of Irrigation Water Conservation Policy
  Integrated Basin Management: Water and Food Policy Options for Turkey
  Economics in Integrated Water Management
  Water Conservation in Irrigation Can Increase Water Use
  Efficient Conservation Measures in Irrigated Agriculture to Sustain Urban and Environmental Water Demands
  Incentive Pricing and Cost Recovery at the Basin Scale
  Efficiency, Equity, and Sustainability in a Water Quantity-Quality Optimization Model in the Rio Grande Basin
  River  Basin Indicators: A Framework for Evaluation in the Rio Grande
Barriers to Water Conservation in the Rio Grande Basin
  Economic Impact of Instream Flow Protection for the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow in the Rio Grande Basin
  Decision Support for Water Policy: A Review of Economic Concepts and Tools
  Economic Impacts of Federal Policy Responses to Drought in the Rio Grande Basin
  Economic Costs and Benefits of Instream Flow Protection for Endangered Species Protection in an International Basin
  Integrated Economic, Hydrologic, and Institutional Analysis of Policy Responses to Mitigate Drought
  Reducing Institutional Barriers to Water Conservation
  Economic Value of Water in Agriculture: Concepts and Policy Applications
  Economic Impact of Alternative Policy Responses to Prolonged and Severe Drought in the Rio Grande Basin
   
   
DOWNLOADABLE SOFTWARE  
  Free demo downloadable version of GAMS software available at  http://www.gams.com/
GAMS Code for models below (all models still under development)
   
WATER POLICY DECISION MODELS (in EXCEL) Balkh River Canal System, Afghanistan Decision Support October 23 2009 version
  Balkh River Canal System, Afghanistan Decision Support October 31 2009 version
  Balkh River Canal System, Afghanistan Decision Support November 17 2009 version
  Balkh River Canal System, Afghanistan Decision Support April 14 2010 version
  Balkh River Canal System, Afghanistan Decision Support April 17 2010 version
  Balkh River Canal System, Afghanistan Decision Support September 17 2010 version
  Balkh River Canal System, Afghanistan Decision Support December 31 2010 version
  Balkh River Canal System, Afghanistan Decision Support January 3 2011 version
  Balkh River Canal System, Afghanistan Decision Support January 5 2011 version
   
  Math Documentation of Spreadsheet Model
  User Guide for Spreadsheet Model
   
WATER POLICY DECISION MODELS (in GAMS)  
  INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IWRM) BASIN SCALE
  Rio Grande Model Features Summary (Excel Spreadsheet): posted August 28 2011
   
  Rio Grande Basin Model: supports Nov 2008 PNAS article on water conservation, in GAMS (txt file)
           Spreadsheet output in Excel
           Mathematical Documentation of Model 
   
  Rio Grande Basin Model with varying drip irrigation subsidies: updated to March 14 2010:
           Spreadsheet Output (21 meg)
   
  Rio Grande Basin Model with several sustainability conditions for reservoirs and aquifers Nov 13 2010
           Spreadsheet Output (16.3 meg)
           Tabled results for forthcoming article in Water Resources Management - 2012 (< 1 meg)
           Stream Aquifer Documentation
   
  Rio Grande Basin Model with varying sustainability conditions for reservoirs and aquifers + ag conservation impacts Feb 11 2011 version
          Spreadsheet Output (17.5 meg)
   
  Rio Grande Basin Model - same as above -- also accounts for long term orchard investments May 13 2011 version
          Spreadsheet Output (17.4 meg)
          Powerpoint slides (AWRA - Nov 7 2011 - Albuquerque)
   
  Rio Grande Basin Model - supports talk at UTEP - NSF Conference May 18 2011 - Sustainable Ag Water Conservation
          Spreadsheet Output (16.8 meg)
          Powerpoint slides (May 18 2011)
   
  Rio Grande Basin Model - supports talk at Stockholm World Water Week August 22 2011 - Hydroeconomic Watershed Policy Analysis
          Spreadsheet Output (17.4 meg)
          Powerpoint slides (SIWI, August 22, 2011)
   
  Rio Grande Basin Model - Evaluates Contribution to Each Basin State Made by Existing Rio Grande Compact: Posted Nov 27 2011
          Spreadsheet Output (17.4 meg)
   
  Small Scale Prototype Demo Basin Model: runs under free GAMS (pdf file)
  Small Scale Prototype Demo Basin Model (txt file): posted November 4 2005
   
  Small Scale Prototype Demo Basin Model with instream flow policy: runs under free GAMS (txt file): posted August 28 2011
           Spreadsheet Output (< 1 meg)
   
  Small Scale Prototype Basin Model without crop detail (txt file)
  Small Scale Prototype Basin Model without crop detail (pdf file)
   
  Small Scale Prototype Basin Model with optimized infrastructure (reservoir) development pattern (txt file) - July 2009
  Small Scale Prototype Basin Model with optimized infrastructure (reservoir and irrigation) development pattern (txt file) - July 2009
  Full Scale 2 Basin Model with optimized reservoir and irrigation development pattern (txt file) - July 2009
   
  Afghan Drought/Food Vulnerability (PMP) - 14 ag nodes, 7 crops, 0 env, 0 urban, 1 pd, 3 hyd scenarios, 1 basin opt policy - Jan 5 2011
           Spreadsheet Output (< 1 meg)
   
  Afghan Drought/Food Vulnerability (PMP) - 14 ag nodes, 7 crops, 0 env, 0 urban, 1 pd, 3 hyd scenarios, several shortage sharing institutions - Dec 1 2010
          Spreadsheet Output (< 1 meg)
   
  Basin Scale Prototype (PMP) - 2 ag nodes, 2 crops, 1 env node, 1 reservoir rec node,  2 urban nodes, 5 yrs, 2 seasons per yr, 2 hyd scenarios, 2 policies (txt file) - March 21 2011
         Spreadsheet Output (< 1 meg)
   
  Basin Scale Prototype -- same as above -- also optimizes private and social values of water - April 29 2011
         Spreadsheet Output (< 1meg)
   
  Small Scale Prototype Basin Model with crop detail (txt file) - September 2011
         Spreadsheet Output of above (< 1 meg)
   
  Small Scale Prototype Basin Model with crop detail - crops only - without reservoirs (txt file) - February 6 2012
         Spreadsheet Output of above (< 1 meg)
   
  Small Scale Prototype Basin Model with crop detail and optimized reservoir and land capacity - seasonal - Jan 24 2011
          Spreadsheet output (< 1 meg)
   
  Multicrop Land Allocation without Hydrology: Marginal Cost of Crop Output = Price  (txt file) March 2011
          Spreadsheet Output of above
   
  Small Scale Prototype Basin Model with crop and crop technology detail (txt file) - July 2007
  Prototype calibrated (PMP) Basin Model with ag detail (txt file) - July 2007
   
  Rio Grande Full Scale Basin Model without crop detail -annual (pdf file)
  Rio Grande Full Scale Basin Model without crop detail -annual (txt file)
   
  Rio Grande Full Scale Basin Model without crop detail - seasonal (txt file)
   
  Rio Grande Full Scale Basin Model with crop detail  -annual (pdf file)
  Rio Grande Full Scale Basin Model with crop detail - annual (txt file)
   
  Nile Basin Egypt Model with crop detail (txt files) for October 2010 EE article - updated Jan 31 2011
         supporting tables as spreadsheet output (3.5 meg)
   
  Nile Basin Egypt with Crop Detail - w and w out water trading for IJWRD article - updated June 15 2011
         spreadsheet output supporting tables (1.0 meg)
         tables from IJWRD article
   
  Nilufer Basin Turkey with crop detail (txt) - for June 2009 EE article - model finished February 2008
         Spreadsheet output
   
  Kabul + Balkh Basins Afghanistan with crop detail multiple seasons and land + reservoir expansions - July 2009
         Spreadsheet Output
   
  Drought Vulnerability Balkh Basin Afghan with crop detail one season no capacity expansions - October 30 2010
         Spreadsheet Output
   
  Murray Darling Basin Australia model with pmp crop detail, urban, and environmental values - March 15 2010
         Spreadsheet output
   
  Amu Darya Basin Model With Tradeoffs Between Countries, Power, Crops, and Environmental Protection: Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan - April 29 2011
         Spreadsheet output (< 1 meg)
         basin map (pdf) - May 29 2011
   
  Amu Darya Basin Model With Tradeoffs Between Seasons, Countries, Power, Crops: Central Asia - Feb 21 2012
         Spreadsheet output (> 30 meg - big)
   
  Prototype Murray Basin model with PMP calibration for 3 uses: ag, env, reservoir rec - March 29 2010
       Spreadsheet output of above
   
  Powerpoints: Climate Adaptation and Water Resources: Berlin 2011 Infrastructure Conference (October 8 2011)
   
  Tigris - Euphrates Basin with crop detail and hydropower - Dec 17 2011
         Spreadsheet output 335k
         Basin Map
   
  HEM water resource management seminar Valencia Spain May-June 2010
   
  Basin Analysis PMP with 2 ag nodes and 2 crops 2 env uses -June 28, 2010
   
  Simple River Basin Water Allocation by Canal and Water Right Priority WITHOUT Optimization - Feb 3, 2012
            Spreadsheet output
   
  Simple River Basin Water Allocation by Canal and Water Right Priority WITH Optimization - April 17, 2012
            Spreadsheet output
   
  Application of Above Basin Model to Alternative Water Right Priority Arrangements in Afghan Irrigation - May 12, 2012
            Spreadsheet output
   
  Simple Endogenous Infrastructure Expansion, Combined with Efficient Water Use Over Time - March 18, 2012
   
  FARM OR IRRIGATION DISTRICT SCALE
  Prototype Farm Management PMP Model with yields varying by total acreage  (txt file) - August 2007
   
  Lower Rio Grande PMP Farm Management Model with varying water supply scenarios, stream-aquifer effects, and drip subsidies  (txt file) - August 6 2011
           Spreadsheet Output ( 8 meg)
   
  Lower Rio Grande PMP Farm Mgmt Model with varying water supply scenarios and drip subsidies - supports forthcoming paper in IJWRD June 2012 - posted Dec 10 2011
           Spreadsheet Output (< 1 meg)
           Powerpoint slides -  AWRA (NM) Albuquerque April 6, 2012
   
  Same as above with minimum acreage consraint on pecan orchards - posted Dec 10 2011
            Spreadsheet Output (< 1 meg)
   
  Farm Impacts PMP of Altering the Duty of Water Lower Rio Grande New Mexico (April 27 2011)
            Spreadsheet Output (< 2 meg)
   
  Lower Rio Grande PMP Farm Management Model with varying water supply scenarios and drip subsidies - gw backstop (txt file) - June 12 2011
           Spreadsheet Output (< 1 meg)
   
  Farm Management Model with multi-crop equilibrium, 3 stages of production, and multiple water application rates per acre - Martin Model - (txt file) - October 16 2011
           Spreadsheet Output (< 1 meg)
   
  Southern Colorado Irrigated Ag Rio Grande Models GAMS code (txt file) - 2006
  Southern Colorado Irrigated Ag Rio Grande Model Description (pdf file) - 2006
   
  Texas Gulf Coast Irrigation Water Conservation Model (pdf file) - March 2008
  Texas Gulf Coast Irrigation Water Conservation Model (txt file) - March 2008
   
  Calibrated (PMP) Farm Level Model with theoretically correct water production function and  ET (txt file) - July 2009
  Calibrated (PMP) Farm Level Model with theoretically correct water production function and  ET (pdf file) - July 2009
   
  Simple Farm Scale Model (pmp), (txt file)
  Math Documentation for Simple Farm Scale Model (pdf file)
   
  INTEGRATED CARBON-CROP-WATER CLIMATE POLICY MODELS
  Water allocation and use with climate adaptation and mitigation - March 4 2012
   
  HYDROLOGIC MODELS
  MODFLOW basic groundwater tracking model: manually entered cells : no economics yet - Feb 29 2012
  MODFLOW basic groundwater tracking model: automated cells:  no economics yet - March 13 2012
   
  Simple streamflow model that distinguishes history and future times for actual, counterfactual scenario: No policy yet - April 8, 2012
  Spreadsheet Output
   
  CGE MULTISECTOR WATER MODELS
  Two Sector CGE with Intermediate Goods and Variable Proportions - Nov 2010
  Two Sector neoclassical with primary resource constraints  -  March 25 2011
             Spreadsheet Output (< 1 meg)
  Two Sector neoclassical with intermediate goods and primary resource constraints - March 25 2011
             Spreadsheet Output (< 1 meg)
   
  WATER INSTITUTION OPTIMIZATION
  Simple water rights adjudication - January 1 2011
  Simple model integrating private and social values of water - May 1 2011
            Spreadsheet Output (< 1 meg)
   
  GAMS TEMPLATES
  Transport Model solves scenarios and policies inside loops
  Spreadsheet Output
   
RIO GRANDE BASIN MAPS Basin Flow Chart (by  Brian Hurd - 2007)
  Basin Flow Chart (by Hilary Brinegar - 2007)
  Basin Sankey Diagram (August 2011)
   
WATER PHOTOS Rio Grande Headwaters
  Rio Grande Headwaters
  Rio Grande Near Alamosa
  Fishing the Rio Grande
  Rio Grande Upstream of Cochiti Reservoir
  Rio Grande at Confluence of Jemez River
  Rio Grande in Drought
  Rio Grande in Fall
  Rio Grande at Taos
  Rio Grande Gorge
  Rio Grande at Big Bend
  Dry Rio Grande at Big Bend
  Rio Grande in Spring
   
  Queretero Mexico Slides (Sept 2010)
  Queretaro Mexico Slides (March 2011)
   
DRAFT MANUSCRIPTS LRG Water Conservation without basin hydrology
   
DERIVATIONS PMP derivation of crop production function parameters (Dec 24 2010)
   
SAS MODELS LRG Water Rights Price Predictor - text file - March 6 2011
  Selected Data
   
PROGRAM DOCUMENTS NMSU GRAD PROGRAM IN WATER SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT DOCUMENT
   
DATA Lakeside
  Garwood
  Gulf Coast
  Nile River Egypt Poster
  Nile
  Nile spreadsheet Dec 31 2010
  Nile spreadsheet Jan 1 2011
  Nile spreadsheet Jan 5 2011
   
  Infrastructure Economics Review Tables from RGB
  Endnote citations for transboundary water sharing study
   
WATER CONSERVATION REFERENCES Posted March 31 2012 (wordperfect)
  Posted March 31 2012 (pdf)
   
   
WATER RESEARCHER PHOTOS NMSU Water Researcher and friends from Spain, Valencia, May 2010
   
  NMSU Water Researcher and wife near Dead Sea, Israel, January 2012
  NMSU Water Researcher in Berlin, October 2011
  NMSU Water Researcher at Father's 90th Birthday Party, December 2011
  NMSU Water Researcher at Stockholm World Water Week, August 2011
  NMSU Water Researcher and Son December 2010