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.

Heat is a serious barrier to maize productivity increases, and heat is expected to rise as a result of climate change.

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

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

"Spatially disaggregated estimates of over 131 streamflow, ground water, and reservoir evaporation monthly time series in California have been created for 12 different climate warming scenarios for a 72-year period.

Nitrate contamination of groundwater is an important problem. The transport of leached nitrate from the root zone to groundwater takes approximately 30 to 60 years.