The effects of well management and the nature of the aquifer on groundwater resources

Qiuqiong Huang; Jinxia Wang; Scott Rozelle; Stephen Polasky; Yang Liu

doi:10.1093/ajae/aas076

The effects of well management and the nature of the aquifer on groundwater resources

Qiuqiong Huang, Jinxia Wang, Scott Rozelle, Stephen Polasky, Yang Liu

Applied Economics

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Abstract

We compare groundwater use under collective well management in China, where village leaders allocate water among households, and under private well management where farmers either pump from their own wells or buy water from wells owned by other farmers. Villages are divided into connected or isolated groups depending on whether there are lateral groundwater flows between aquifers underlying a village and neighboring ones. In rural China, households under collective well management use less water. Even under collective management, households located in connected villages use more water, indicating that the connectedness of the aquifers may undermine leaders' incentives to conserve water.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	94-116
Number of pages	23
Journal	American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Volume	95
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/ajae/aas076
State	Published - Jan 2013

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We acknowledge financial support from the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (70925001, 71161140351) and the Ministry of Science and Technology (2012CB955700, 2010CB428406).

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collective well management
community-based management
connected village
isolated village
private well management

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