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Groundwater basin depletion and international political borders
Using data from NASA's Grace-Tellus Satellite project we study the effects of international borders on large scale groundwater basins. This is the first global socio-economic study of all major groundwater basins using these novel satellite data and connecting them to anthropogenic, political, and physical drivers of terrestrial water storage change. We find groundwater basins that intersect country borders face greater depletion than ones that do not, providing evidence of inefficiency in international water management. The source of inefficiency is driven by agricultural demand and the lack of international property rights.
Using data from NASA's Grace-Tellus Satellite project we study the effects of international borders on large scale groundwater basins. This is the first global socio-economic study of all major groundwater basins using these novel satellite data and connecting them to anthropogenic, political, and physical drivers of terrestrial water storage change. We find groundwater basins that intersect country borders face greater depletion than ones that do not, providing evidence of inefficiency in international water management. The source of inefficiency is driven by agricultural demand and the lack of international property rights.
In memorium. (2011-2018). This paper was originally a part of my dissertation. After coming to URI I asked Gavino to co-author the paper and help with trying out spatial econometric approaches. We ended up dropping those methods but remained co-authors. After presenting the paper at a few conferences with a kind reception, it was sent to general scientific journals (Science and Nature, etc.) then to Water Resources Research without success. It then was rewritten for economic specific journals and was desk rejected at a few general journals for being too field specific. Then it was rejected at AJAE and JAERE. The overarching issue that the paper continued to receive at all journals is that whenever hydrologists familiar with GRACE Data were consulted they insisted that the data is too noisy and not appropriate to analyze with regressions. The paper then became tired of being beaten so unjustly and begged to be put down. Here it lies.