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Investigaciones geográficas
On-line version ISSN 2448-7279Print version ISSN 0188-4611
Abstract
CARRASCAL LEAL, Claudia Cecilia; DENEGRI, Gerardo Andrés and DELGADO, María Isabel. Minimum compensation costs and quantification of water supply in the upper watershed of the Sauce Grande River, Argentina. Invest. Geog [online]. 2013, n.80, pp.55-70. ISSN 2448-7279.
The aim of this work was to estimate the monetary cost of increasing water supply due to a change in current land use, in order to establish the minimum compensation costs for a future System of Payments for Environmental Services in the Upper Watershed of the Sauce Grande River. The work involved three steps: simulation of the infiltration for different rainfalls applying the hydrologic model HECHMS, calculation of the cost of changing the productive systems and estimation of the cost of increasing water supply. Results consisted of the thematic maps needed for simulations and the tables that showed variation between rainfalls with different recurrence intervals and different land use. For the recurrence of 1:1 the cost of opportunity was U$S 1.21.m-3, for the recurrence of 1:3 was U$S 0.73.m-3 and the lowest cost found was of U$S 0.62.m-3. We concluded that these costs will support future planning on the use of water resource within a system of Payments for Environmental Services, but it is also important to considerate that a contingent valuation is needed in order to establish the people`s will to pay for the use of this resource in the watershed.
Keywords : HEC-HMS; Payment for Environmental Services (PES); change of agricultural practices; gross margins.