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The opportunity to transfer water creates incentives for farmers to consider the value of water in off-farm uses when making farm management decisions. Water transfers can complement other policy approaches to agricultural drainage problems by prompting farmers to use less water for irrigation, recognizing its opportunity cost, and by providing water to mitigate drainage-related contamination and to replace and restore damaged wetlands.
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Colby, B.G. (1991). Economic Incentives and Agricultural Drainage Problems: The Role of Water Transfers. In: Dinar, A., Zilberman, D. (eds) The Economics and Management of Water and Drainage in Agriculture. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4028-1_40
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