Pareto-Improving Water Management over Space and Time: The Honolulu Case

Basharat A. Pitafi and James Roumasset ()

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2009, vol. 91, issue 1, pages 138-153

Abstract: We model welfare gains from efficient allocation of groundwater over space and time relative to the status quo policy of financial cost recovery. In order to promote political feasibility, an intertemporal compensation plan is devised that renders the reform Pareto-improving. Gainers from the reform finance the compensation in proportion to their benefits through a block-pricing scheme. For the Honolulu case, only 7% of the $441 million in gains to winners is needed to compensate losers from the reform. Future winners from the reform also repay the deficit created by the compensation package, much as state and local governments finance capital improvements. Copyright Copyright 2008 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

Date: 2009
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