Selected Research Results and Working Decision Support Models

Water Resources Management and Policy

Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business

New Mexico State University

November 2009

RESEARCH RESULTS (not for commercial use)  
  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 User
  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
   
WATER POLICY DECISION MODELS (in GAMS)  
  BASIN SCALE
   
  Rio Grande Basin Model: supports Nov 2008 PNAS article on water conservation, in GAMS (txt file)
           Spreadsheet output in Excel
           Mathematical Documentation of Model 
   
  Small Scale Prototype Demo Basin Model: runs under free GAMS (pdf file)
  Small Scale Prototype Demo Basin Model (txt file)
   
  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 reservoir development pattern (txt file)
  Small Scale Prototype Basin Model with optimized reservoir and irrigation development pattern (txt file)
  Full Scale 2 Basin Model with optimized reservoir and irrigation development pattern (txt file)
   
   
  Small Scale Prototype Basin Model with crop detail (txt file)
  Small Scale Prototype Basin Model with crop detail (pdf file)
  Small Scale Prototype Basin Model with crop detail and optimized reservoir and land capacity - seasonal (txt file)
  Spreadsheet output for Basin Model with crop detail - seasonal (excel)
   
  Small Scale Prototype Basin Model with crop and crop technology detail (txt file)
  Prototype calibrated (PMP) Basin Model with ag detail (txt file) 
   
  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 with Crop Detail (txt files)
  Nile Basin Egypt with spreadsheet output (excel)
   
  Nilufer Basin Turkey with crop detail (txt)
  Nilufer Basin Turkey spreadsheet output (excel)
   
  Kabul + Balkh Basins Afghanistan with crop detail multiple seasons and land + reservoir expansions
  Spreadsheet Output for Afghanistan Model
  FARM SCALE
  Prototype Farm Management PMP Model with yields varying by total acreage  (txt file)
   
  Texas Gulf Coast Water Conservation Model (pdf file)
  Texas Gulf Coast Water Conservation Model (txt file)
   
  Calibrated (PMP) Farm Level Model with theoretically correct water production function and  ET (txt file)
  Calibrated (PMP) Farm Level Model with theoretically correct water production function and  ET (pdf file)
   
   
RIO GRANDE BASIN MAPS Basin Flow Chart (by  Brian Hurd)
  Basin Flow Chart (by Hilary Brinegar)
   
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
   
DATA Lakeside
  Garwood
  Gulf Coast