QUESTION 6 A village has a water reservoir that individuals A and B have access rights to. Both users A and B want to consume water from the reservoir. The total supply of water there is limited to 14 due to a dry weather this year. User A has inverse demand function: P = 20-Q. User A has marginal cost of pumping water from the reservoir (so that he can irrigate his farm): MC=4. For user B, her inverse demand function is P =10-0.5Q. User B has marginal cost of pumping water (so that she can grow fish in her water garden): MC=2. Efficient allocations are QA= and QB= . When the water allocation is efficient, user A's net benefit is and user B's net benefit is Thus, the sum of net benefits (or economic surplus) is

QUESTION 6 A village has a water reservoir that individuals A and B have access rights to. Both users A and B want to consume water from the reservoir. The total supply of water there is limited to 14 due to a dry weather this year. User A has inverse demand function: P = 20-Q. User A has marginal cost of pumping water from the reservoir (so that he can irrigate his farm): MC=4. For user B, her inverse demand function is P =10-0.5Q. User B has marginal cost of pumping water (so that she can grow fish in her water garden): MC=2. Efficient allocations are QA= and QB= . When the water allocation is efficient, user A's net benefit is and user B's net benefit is Thus, the sum of net benefits (or economic surplus) is

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