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Investigating the Economic Impacts of Inter-Basin Water Transfer Projects with a Water- Embedded Multi - Regional Computable General Equilibrium Approach

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Inter-basin water transfer projects are among the highly controversial issues in water supply policies. These projects have economic effects on the sources and destination areas. The costs and benefits of these projects should be investigated for their justification. This study examines the economic and welfare impacts of the Taleghan Water Transfer Project (TWTP) in Iran using a water-embedded multi-regional computable general equilibrium (WMRCGE) model. The results indicate that the increase in the equivalent variation (EV) of the water-receiving area is 6.9 times greater than the EV loss in the water supply area. Thus, the welfare improvement in the water-receiving area is much higher than the welfare loss in the water-supplying area. The results also indicated that the increase in total output in the water-receiving region is three times the total output reduction in the water supply region.

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  1. Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agricultural Economics, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

    Shahrbanoo Bagheri

  2. Department Administarative Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Mortaza Baky-Haskuee

  3. Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agricultural Economics, University of Tehran, Karaj, Tehran, Iran

    Saeed Yazdani

  4. Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

    Babolla Hayati

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Shahrbanoo Bagheri: Methodology ,Writing – original draft, Data curation, Software, Supervision. Mortaza Baky-Haskuee: Methodology, Software. Saeed Yazdani: Conceptualization, Developed the original idea. Babolla Hayati: Writing – original draft, Data curation.

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Appendix 1 Parameters of Calibrated Models

Appendix 1 Parameters of Calibrated Models

Table 4 Parameters of Calibrated Models in Source basins
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Table 5 Parameters of Calibrated Models Destination basins
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Bagheri, S., Baky-Haskuee, M., Yazdani, S. et al. Investigating the Economic Impacts of Inter-Basin Water Transfer Projects with a Water- Embedded Multi - Regional Computable General Equilibrium Approach. Water Resour Manage (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-024-03844-6

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