Panel Paper:
Are Inter- and Intra-Basin Water Transfers As a Policy Intervention to Address Water Scarcity Sustainable?
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Continuing Education Building - Room 2050 (University of California, Irvine)
*Names in bold indicate Presenter
The objective of this study is to discern whether or not inter- and intra-basin water transfers can lead to water sustainability in an effort to address scarcity. Additionally, it will be studied whether the private, and public benefits outweigh the private, and public costs of the physical transfer infrastructure. Specific attention is directed toward intra-basin water transfer equity surrounding the basin and consequential equity issues related to inter-basin transfers which affect surrounding communities’ allocations. The motives behind the study and the way this analysis is different is because an interdisciplinary perspective is offered and this multidisciplinary scope is used to analyse the collected case studies on the global and domestic scale from a policy, and economics perspective.
