The Environmental Effects of Water Pricing Policy in China
With effective abatement of point sources pollution, agricultural non-point sources contribution has become a major concern of water quality degradation in China. Using selected irrigation districts in northern China as a case study, this paper probes the potential impact of water pricing policy on local environment. The examination shows that farmers will reduce the rice area with high water demand as a response to rising water price. The rising water price will exert three-fold environmental impacts, including the effects of seepage and percolation of agricultural water, the loss of irrigation facilities, and the increase of fertilizer and pesticide application. Water pricing as a single instrument for control of water use is not very effective in reducing agricultural water consumption due to the fact of substitution groundwater for surface water under the current irrigation management institutions.
Water pricing Irrigation district Environmental effects
Han Hongyun Zhao Liange
College of economics, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou Zhejiang 310035, China
国际会议
第六届管理学国际会议(Proceedings of ICM2007 the 6th International on Management)
武汉
英文
1668-1675
2007-08-03（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）