New Mexico State University
  Water Economics and Policy Research:   Articles, Models (mostly GAMS), Data, Photos
  Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business
  May  2013
RESEARCH RESULTS (for non-commercial and educational use only. Please ask publisher for use permission)  
  Mitigating Impacts of Water Supply Shortage on Egyptian Agriculture: A Catchment Scale Analysis
  Reducing Conflict in Development and Allocation of Transboundary Waters
  Economic Performance of Water Storage Capacity Expansion for Food Security
  Water Allocation Rules in Afghanistan for Improved Food Security
  Forging Sustainable Transboundary Water Sharing Agreements: Barriers and Opportunities
  Economic Costs of Sustaining Water Supplies: Findings from the Rio Grande
  Economics of Agricultural Water Conservation: Empirical Analysis and Policy Implications
  Incentives to Adopt Irrigation Water Conservation Measures for Wetlands Preservation: An Integrated Basin Scale Analysis
  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 WITH MULTIPLE WATER USES
  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 version - supports article in May 2012 Wat Res Mgmt
           Spreadsheet Output (16.3 meg)
           Tables published in article (< 1 meg)
           Stream Aquifer Model 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 -- but 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 - supports forthcoming 2013 article in WP on transboundary treaties
          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)
   
  Afghan Drought Adapation (PMP) - wet to dry - water use unconstrained with full water - Balkh Basin, Ag only - 14 canals - June 9 2012
          Spreadsheet Output of Above (< 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 Oct 2011 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
   
  Evaluates Reservoir Up-Scaling - in variables - (not PMP) OPTIMIZES 1 basin's water among canals, crops - detailed hydrology - Afghan application - forthcoming in Jour of Hydrol - Jan 8 2013
         Spreadsheet Output
   
  Evaluates Reservoir Up-Scaling - in parameters - (PMP   ) allocates 2 basins' water by RULE among  canals, OPTIMIZES among crops - simple hydrology - Afghan application - March 3 2013
         Spreadsheet Output (5.0 meg)
   
  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 - posted April 29 2011
         Spreadsheet output (< 1 meg)
         basin map (pdf) - May 29 2011
   
  Amu Darya Basin Model With Analysis of Rogun Dam -  supports article under review at Water Res Mgmt - posted March 29 2013
         Spreadsheet output (> 30 meg - big)
   
  Amu Darya Basin Model With Tradeoffs Between Seasons, Countries, Power, Crops: Central Asia - March 1 2013 - supports forthcoming article in Eurasian Geography and Economics
         Spreadsheet output (> 30 meg - big)
   
  Amu Darya Basin Model With Analysis of Pareto Improving Policies for Basin Countries - supports article under review JAWRA - posted April 30 2013
         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 (Turkey, Syria, Iraq) with crop detail and hydropower (no pmp in ag) - Jan 20 2013
         Spreadsheet output 335k
         Basin Map
   
  Tigris - Euphrates Basin (Turkey, Syria, Iraq) with crop detail and hydropower (pmp in ag) - feb_8 2013
         Spreadsheet output 335k
         Basin Map
   
  Tigris - Euphrates Basin (Iraq only) with crop detail and 3 water rights system (not PMP)  EXCLUDING unrestricted water trading - Oct 6 2012
         Spreadsheet output (1.6 meg)
   
  Tigris - Euphrates Basin (Iraq only) with crop detail and 4 water rights systems (not PMP-for teaching) INCLUDING detailed ET unrestricted water trading  - auto sensitivity analysis - Feb 26 2013
          Spreadsheet output (5.0meg)
   
  Tigris - Euphrates Basin (Iraq only) with crop detail and 4 water rights systems (PMP-for research) INCLUDING detailed ET unrestricted water trading  - auto sensitivity analysis - Feb 15 2013
          Spreadsheet output (5.0meg)
   
   
  Teaching Model 1: Farm Management - Iraq - May 13 2013
        listing results - MS Word
   
  Teaching Model 2: Farm Management - Iraq - May 13 2013
          listing results - MS Word
   
  Teaching Model 3: Farm Management - Iraq - May 13 2013
          listing results  - MS Word
   
  Teaching Model 4: Farm Management - Iraq - May 13 2013
          listing results  - MS Word
   
  Teaching Model 5: Farm Management - Iraq - May 13 2013
       spreadsheet results
   
  Teaching Model 6: Farm Management - Iraq - May 13 2013
       spreadsheet results
   
   
  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
   
  Basin Water Allocation by Canal and Water Right Priority WITH reservoir storage and WITHOUT Optimization - Oct 6, 2012
            Spreadsheet output
   
  Basin Water Allocation by Canal and Water Right Priority WITHOUT reservoir storage and WITHOUT Optimization - Feb 3, 2012
            Spreadsheet output
   
  Basin Water Allocation by Canal and Water Right Priority WITHOUT reservoir storage and WITH Optimization - April 17, 2012
            Spreadsheet output
   
  Food Security WITH Alternative Water Right Systems WITHOUT PMP optimization - app to Afghan Irrigation - Nov 12, 2012 (supports article in Food Security - Nov 2012)
            Spreadsheet output
   
  Food Security Analysis WITHOUT Alternative Water Right Systems and WITH PMP optimization - applied to Afghan Irrigation - Nov 12, 2012 (supports same article - table 6)
            Spreadsheet output
   
  Optimized Water Infrastructure Expansion, Combined with Efficient Water Use Over Time - March 18, 2012
   
  SINGLE OR MULTIPLE IRRIGATION DISTRICTS - IRRIGATION IS ONLY WATER USE
   
  Prototype Farm Management (PMP) Model with yields varying by total acreage  (txt file) - Jan 2010
           Spreadsheet Output (< 1 meg)
   
  Lower Rio Grande (PMP) Farm Management Model - multi year, varying water supply scenarios, pumping-aquifer effects, and drip subsidies  (txt file) - August 6 2011
           Spreadsheet Output ( 8 meg)
   
  Same as above - but has improved pumping - aquifer interaction as well as aquifer storage and recovery activities - Jan 13 2013
           Spreadsheet Output -  (7.5 meg)
   
  Base Model: Lower Rio Grande (PMP) Farm Mgmt with varying water supply scenarios and drip subsidies - supports article in Int J Wat Res Dev - Dec 2012 - posted Feb 17 2013
           Spreadsheet Output (< 1 meg)
           Powerpoint slides -  AWRA (NM) Albuquerque April 6, 2012
              Math derivation for total irrigation water quantity demanded for one crop as a function of water and crop prices  (PMP) - posted Feb 15, 2013
           Spreadsheet example of math derivation (< 1 meg) - posted Feb 17, 2013
   
  Same as base model (PMP) - but crop prices vary in the face of a fixed water supply - posted Feb 17 2013
           Spreadsheet Output (< 1 meg)
   
  Same as base model (PMP) - base or wet scenario - wet scenario reduces water price below observed level - posted May 30, 2012
  Spreadsheet Output (< 1 meg)
   
  (Small but mighty - PMP)  - 2**n - by crop, irrigation technology, year, water supply, drip subsidy, region - no water allocation rules - Nov 29, 2012
            Spreadsheet Output (<1 meg)
   
  Same as above (PMP) - 2x2 - by crop, year, water supply, canal, and basin - no water allocation rules - posted Dec 01, 2012
            Spreadsheet Output (<1 meg)
   
  Same as above (PMP) - application to Afghan irrigated ag - in progress posted Dec 03, 2012
            Spreadsheet Output (<1 meg)
   
  EBID policy analysis with minimum acreage constraint on pecan orchards - posted Dec 10 2011
            Spreadsheet Output (< 1 meg)
   
  PMP - Farm Impacts 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)
   
  Same as above with varying crop prices, costs, water supplies, and drip subsidies  - gw backstop with pump limits and pecan reqts (txt file) - March 17 2013
            Spreadsheet Output (< 1 meg)
            Powerpoint slides for talk at K State University (October 31, 2012)
   
  Same as above - with drought, drip subsidies, pump limits, pecan production reqts, salinity yield impacts (txt file) - May 17 2013
           Spreadsheet Output (1.1 meg)
           Powerpoint slides for talk to NM Geological Society, Socorro (April 12, 2013)
  ------- Model Math documentation in pdf also wp (April 14 2013)
   
  Simple 1 crop model - groundwater and surface water are perfect substitutes - fixed total water requirement per acre - Nov 14 2012
   
  PMP - Farm Impacts of Alternative Drip Irrigation Subsidies (Cobb Douglas with deficit irrigation and ET < App) - posted July 26 2012
   
  Static groundwater pumping model with econ and hydrology - 1 crop - 1 irrig tech - 1 period - 1 nonrechargable aquifer - June 12 2012
            Spreadsheet Output (< 1 meg)
   
  Dynamic groundwater pumping model with econ, agronomy, hydrology - 2 crops - 2 irrig tech - 1 aquifer - 2 policies - 100 periods - Nov 16 2012
            Spreadsheet Output (4.2 meg)
   
  Same as above with 'near' pmp where observed pumping behavior approx = optimized - Nov 18 2012
  Spreadsheet Output (3.8 meg)
   
  Same as above with variable power prices - Nov 19 2012
  Spreadsheet Output (6.9 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 simplest groundwater head-flow-volume model: automated cells:  no economic values or policy yet - March 15 2013
             Spreadsheet Output (< 1 meg)
             Math documentation of MODFLOW 2005 by USGS (< 1 meg)
   
  MODFLOW simplest groundwater head-flow-volume model: manually entered cells: no economic values or policy yet - November 24 2012
   
  Simple streamflow model that distinguishes history and future times for actual and counterfactual scenario: No policy yet - April 8, 2012
             Spreadsheet Output
   
  RIO GRANDE PROJECT OPERATING AGREEMENT - SELECTED MATERIALS
  Rio Grande Project Operating Agreement - allocates project water - in GAMS - signed March 2008 - posted Oct 21 2012
  Rio Grande Project Operating Agreement - allocates project water - in excel - signed March 2008 - posted Oct 21 2012
  Rio Grande Project Operating Agreement - text - in wordperfect - signed March 2008 - posted Oct 21 2012
  Rio Grande Project Operating Agreement - text - pdf of original - signed March 2008 - posted Oct 21 2012
   
  CGE MULTISECTOR WATER MODELS
 

Two Sector neoclassical with substitution WITHOUT intermediate goods, WITHOUT imports, WITH primary resource constraints  -  Dec 29 2012

              Spreadsheet Output (< 1 meg)
  Two Sector neoclassical with substitution, WITH intermediate goods, WITH imports, WITH primary resource constraints WITH climate - Jan 1 2013
             Spreadsheet Output (< 1 meg)
   
  WATER INSTITUTIONS 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, Colorado
  Rio Grande Headwaters, Colorado
  Rio Grande Near Alamosa, Colorado
  Fishing the Rio Grande, NM
  Rio Grande Upstream of Cochiti Reservoir,  NM
  Rio Grande at Confluence of Jemez River, NM
  Rio Grande in Drought, NM
  Rio Grande in Fall, NM
  Rio Grande at Taos, NM
  Rio Grande Gorge near Taos, NM
  Rio Grande at Big Bend, TX
  Dry Rio Grande at Big Bend, TX
  Rio Grande in Spring, NM
   
  NMSU Water Research near Dead Sea - Jan  2012
  Hungry Bengal Tiger
  NMSU Water Research in Stockholm Sweden - August 2011
  NMSU Water Research in Las Cruces NM - January 2011
   
  AD Data Spreadsheet