WWRC 89-43
The Increasing Role of States in Water Management: The Wyoming Experience
Abstract
The net effect of states providing large grants for water development is cheap water
for some uses. The resulting low cost of water promotes an inefficient water-using
policy rather than an efficient water-conserving policy. An alternative is for states to
require project benefits to equal project costs and to limit grant size to identified
public and secondary benefits. In this case project beneficiaries would pay for all
project costs less identified public and secondary benefits, encouraging more efficient
use of existing water supplies.
Key words: water development policy, state financing, policy criteria, water
management.
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