The State of Washington Capital Budget for 2013 charged the State of Washington Water Research Center to prepare separate benefit-cost analyses for each of the projects proposed in the 2012 Yakima River Basin Water Resource Management Plan. This report is in response to the legislative charge.
- Executive Summary (2014)
- Full Report (2014)
- Corrections (Updated 17 Feb 2015)
For press attention, related articles and other information see also: https://wrc.wsu.edu/2014ybip/
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- WSU Study Challenges Economics of Yakima Basin Water Plan
- Yakima Basin Integrated Plan Implementation Committee Comments on WRC Report Draft
- WSU Study: Yakima Basin Projects Don’t Pencil Out
- WSU Report Says Water Plan Overvalues Fish Recovery
- Guest Opinion: Public Can’t Afford to Subsidize New Water Projects
- For IWRM to Succeed, It Must Be Embraced as a Social and Political Process
- Cantwell measure allows more irrigation in return for fish, land protections
- Yakima Basin farmers want more water, sooner
- Critics of Yakima Basin Integrated Plan say officials don’t listen
- Western Water: Deal could end bitter Washington Battle, but not everyone’s happy
- CAHNRS Team Interdisciplinary Award for 2015
- 2016 Bruce Gardner Prize
- Criticism and response about the WRC study: Exchange between Malloch & Garrity and Yoder
- Water Markets and Storage — Substitutes or Complements for Drought Risk Mitigation?
- Benefit-Cost Analysis of Integrated Water Resource Management: Accounting for interdependence in the Yakima Basin Integrated Plan