The water literature has mainly investigated the diversion and distribution of water from the source to the end users or the utilization of water at the farm level in crop production.

This article develops an economic model to analyze how the risk of water shortages affects farmers’ land irrigation decision and how the priority-based water sharing arrangement redistributes such a risk among farms with different water rights pri

This paper explores the impacts of a water right's allocative priority—as an indicator of farmers' risk-bearing ability—on land irrigation under water supply uncertainty.

The ability of California's water supply system to adapt to long-term climatic and demographic changes is examined.