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Water shortage in Israel: Long‐run policy for the farm sector
Author(s) -
Gisser Micha,
Pohoryles Samuel
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
water resources research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 217
eISSN - 1944-7973
pISSN - 0043-1397
DOI - 10.1029/wr013i006p00865
Subject(s) - agriculture , economic shortage , agricultural economics , natural resource economics , water scarcity , order (exchange) , economics , water sector , environmental science , water resource management , water supply , business , environmental engineering , geography , finance , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , government (linguistics)
Israel faces a situation of a limited amount of water supply and increasing demands. Since agriculture uses a large fraction of the water available in this country, one potential policy is to reduce allocations of water to agriculture in order to permit the growth of use in other sectors. Estimates of the total loss in income to agriculture from reduction in current allocations are made by using a linear programing model. These are to be taken as guideline estimates only.