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31. Hydroeconomic asymmetries and common-pool overdraft in transboundary aquifers

3/24/2022

 
Mullen, C., Muller M.F., Penny G., Hung, F. and Bolster D., (2022) Water Resources Research, doi: 10.1029/2022WR032136
The common-pool nature of groundwater resources creates incentives to overpump that contribute to their rapid global depletion. In transboundary aquifers, users are separated by a territorial border and might face substantially different economic and hydrogeologic conditions that can alternatively dampen or amplify incentives to overpump. We develop a theoretical model that couples principles of game theory and groundwater flow to capture the combined effect of well locations and user asymmetries on pumping incentives. We find that user asymmetries in either energy cost, groundwater profitability or aquifer response tend to dampen incentives to overpump. However, combinations of two or more asymmetry types can substantially amplify common-pool overdraft, particularly when the same user simultaneously faces comparatively higher costs (or aquifer response) and profitability. We use this theoretical insight to interpret the emergence of the Disi agreement between Saudi Arabia and Jordan in association with the Disi-Amman water pipeline. By using bounded non-dimensional parameters to encode user asymmetries and groundwater connectivity, the theory provides a tractable generalized framework to understand the premature depletion of shared aquifers.

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