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Supply‐demand coordination in water resources management
Author(s) -
Guariso G.,
Maidment D.,
Rinaldi S.,
SonciniSessa R.
Publication year - 1981
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/wr017i004p00776
Subject(s) - convergence (economics) , water resource management , water supply , water resources , point (geometry) , supply and demand , marginal utility , plan (archaeology) , computer science , simple (philosophy) , marginal cost , mathematical optimization , environmental science , operations research , environmental economics , economics , environmental engineering , mathematics , microeconomics , geology , ecology , paleontology , philosophy , geometry , epistemology , biology , economic growth
A simple procedure is proposed for the determination of the water supplies and demands which maximize the total net benefit from water use in a region. The technique is in some ways a standard iterative market method, and, in fact, the convergence to the optimal solution is achieved when the marginal benefit at each demand point is equal to the marginal cost of delivering water to that point. The possibility of applying this technique to a given problem can immediately be ascertained from the pattern of the links between supply and demand units. An example is presented in which the method is applied to analyze the possible interbasin water transfer in the Northwest Water Plan in Mexico.