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Water Markets in Spain: Performance and Challenges

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Gómez-Limón, José A.
Riesgo, Laura
Palomo-Hierro, Sara
Publisher
MDPI
Date
2015
Subject
Water demand management policy
Water markets
Water banks
Market performance
Barriers
Spain
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Abstract
Law 46/1999 incorporated formal water markets into the Spanish legal and regulatory framework, allowing spot water markets and the creation of water banks. The implementation of water markets in Spain aimed at improving the efficiency of water use by reallocating water towards uses with higher added value. However, the performance of water markets in Spain has been rather disappointing, since they have been operative only during drought periods, and even under these extreme scarcity situations, trading activity counted for less than 5.0% of total water use. The narrowness of the market suggests that there are some barriers hampering their effective functioning. This paper examines the evolution and performance of water markets in Spain, relying on a transaction costs analysis framework. This analysis allows the identification of the main factors impeding water markets from operating effectively as a water reallocation tool. This analysis also provides some guidelines on how to overcome these obstacles and, thus, how to improve the efficiency of water use.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10396/15371
Fuente
Water 7(2), 652-678 (2015)
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w7020652
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