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Economic and Conservation Tradeoffs of Regulatory Vs. Incentive-Based Water Policy in the Northwest By Glen D. Schaible ERS Elsewhere No. 0103, June 2000 Water quality, endangered salmon species, and Native American fishing rights have significantly heightened the competition for Columbia and Snake River Basin water resources. A solution to this regional resource conflict is expected to involve a reallocation of water resources from agriculture. This analysis examines both onfarm water conservation and agricultural economic tradeoffs across five broad regulatory and conservation-incentive water policy perspectives for the Pacific Northwest. Keywords: water quality, irrigation, water management, water conservation, water policy, economic research service, ers, usda, u.s. department of agriculture Get this document in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. web administration: webadmin@ers.usda.gov page updated: April 12, 2001

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