Marginal cost curves for water footprint reduction in irrigated agriculture: guiding a cost-effective reduction of crop water consumption to a permit or benchmark level

Chukalla, Abebe D.; Krol, Maarten S.; Hoekstra, Arjen Y.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3507-2017

Articles | Volume 21, issue 7

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 3507–3524, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3507-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 3507–3524, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3507-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 21, issue 7

Research article 13 Jul 2017

Research article | 13 Jul 2017

Marginal cost curves for water footprint reduction in irrigated agriculture: guiding a cost-effective reduction of crop water consumption to a permit or benchmark level

Abebe D. Chukalla et al.

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Final revised paper (published on 13 Jul 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 17 Feb 2017)

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

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RC1: 'Review comment on “Marginal cost curves for water footprint reduction in irrigated agriculture: guiding a cost-effective reduction of crop water consumption to a benchmark or permit level”', Anonymous Referee #1, 03 Mar 2017
- AC1: 'We thank Referee #1 for the clear and valid comments. Herewith please find the reply to each of the points.', Abebe Demissie Chukalla, 08 Mar 2017
RC2: 'Rcomment', Anonymous Referee #2, 13 Mar 2017
- AC2: 'Reply to Referee #2', Abebe Demissie Chukalla, 22 Mar 2017
  - RC4: 'response to authors', Anonymous Referee #2, 27 Mar 2017
    - AC4: 'ReplyReferee2_2nd', Abebe Demissie Chukalla, 03 Apr 2017
RC3: 'Review comments', Anonymous Referee #3, 14 Mar 2017
- AC3: 'Reply to Referee #3', Abebe Demissie Chukalla, 22 Mar 2017
RC5: 'Review of "Marginal cost curves for water footprint reduction in irrigated agriculture: guiding a cost-effective reduction of crop water consumption to a benchmark or permit level"', Anonymous Referee #4, 29 Mar 2017
- AC5: 'Reply to Referee #4', Abebe Demissie Chukalla, 10 Apr 2017
EC1: 'Comments from Editor in charge', Nunzio Romano, 30 Mar 2017
- AC6: 'We just posted the reply to Referee #4', Abebe Demissie Chukalla, 10 Apr 2017

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

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by Editor and Referees) (23 Apr 2017) by Nunzio Romano

AR by Abebe Demissie Chukalla on behalf of the Authors (24 May 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (08 Jun 2017) by Nunzio Romano

Short summary

In the current study, we have developed a method to obtain marginal cost curves (MCCs) for WF reduction in crop production. The method is innovative by employing a model that combines soil water balance accounting and a crop growth model and assessing costs and WF reduction for all combinations of irrigation techniques, irrigation strategies and mulching practices. While this approach has been used in the field of constructing MCCs for carbon footprint reduction, this has never been done before.