Protecting environmental flows through enhanced water licensing and water markets

Erfani, T.; Binions, O.; Harou, J. J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-675-2015

Articles | Volume 19, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-675-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-675-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 2

Research article

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03 Feb 2015

Research article |

| 03 Feb 2015

Protecting environmental flows through enhanced water licensing and water markets

T. Erfani, O. Binions, and J. J. Harou

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Final revised paper (published on 03 Feb 2015)
Preprint (discussion started on 12 Mar 2014)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC C1136: 'Review of 2013-608', Anonymous Referee #1, 25 Apr 2014
RC C1703: 'Review for 11, 2967–3003, 2014', Anonymous Referee #2, 03 Jun 2014
AC C2658: 'Responses to reviewers', Olga Binions, 23 Jul 2014

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reject (23 Jul 2014) by Yanpeng Cai

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (27 Aug 2014) by Alberto Guadagnini

AR by Olga Binions on behalf of the Authors (09 Oct 2014) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (13 Oct 2014) by Alberto Guadagnini

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (29 Oct 2014)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (18 Nov 2014) by Alberto Guadagnini

AR by Olga Binions on behalf of the Authors (28 Nov 2014)

ED: Publish as is (05 Dec 2014) by Alberto Guadagnini

AR by Olga Binions on behalf of the Authors (08 Dec 2014)

Short summary

This paper simulates river basin water markets under two licensing regimes: fixed volumetric allowances and scalable licensing with dynamic environmental minimum flow requirements. The model is applied to the Great Ouse River basin in eastern England, with each water user from four main sectors represented individually. The results suggest that the scalable licensing system is more effective in protecting environmental flows, at the opportunity cost of 10-15% of economic benefits to water users.