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Estimating the value of irrigation water transferred to instream flow : A case study of Umatilla County, Oregon

Creator:

Ugrinska, Monika P.

Abstract:

Agricultural water supplies are becoming increasingly uncertain in the western United States due to elevated demands from competing water users, environmental restrictions on surface water withdrawals as a result of the establishment of the Endangered Species Act in 1973, and potential climatic changes. Since many rural communities in the West...

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Masters Thesis

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case of the California water bank). Hewitt (1998) reports that the two counties that supplied 25