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Can anyone help me with these questions for my homework for environmental econ please?

the diagram above, assume there are 3 million gallons of water available in the aquifer. It water were allocated efficiently, how much would go to irrigation and how much to drinking A) 2 million gallons to irrigation, 1 million to drinking B) 1 million gallons to irrigation and 2 million gallons to drinking C) all of it would go to drinking D) all of it would go to agriculture (drinkers would switch to beer) 15) In the diagram above, assume there are only 0.6 million gallons of water available in the aquifer. If water were allocated efficiently, how much would go to irrigation and how much to drinking? A) 0.4 million gallons to irrigation, 0.2 million to drinking B) 0.2 million gallons to irrigation and 0.4 million gallons to drinking C) all of it would go to drinking D) all of it would go to agriculture (drinkers would switch to beer) 16) If the state water board reduces the water available to agriculture, this will likely cause... A) ...the bid-rent function for agriculture to shift upward B) ...the bid-rent function for agriculture to shift downward C)...no change to the bid-rent function for agriculture D) ...all bid-rent functions to shift upward 17) The Latifundio - Minifundio pattern of land use in Latin America... A)...is efficient because small farmers use their land very intensively B)...is efficient because large landowners can take advantage of economies of scale C)...in inefficient because large landowners do not use their land intensively D)...in inefficient because property rights are not clearly defined 18) If data were to show that the supply of food was price inelastic over a long period of time, this would tend to confirm... A)...the weak hypothesis of food scarcity B)...the strong hypothesis of food scarcity C)...neither hypothesis D)...which ever hypothesis the current administration favors 19) Adequate food production in Asia is hampered by... A) Fragmentation of plots as land is passed from generation to generation B) Inefficient use of land by large landowners C) Shifting of cultivation as land nutrients are depleted D) All of the above 20) Per our class discussion, the primary cause of inefficient land use in Africa is... A) ...sharecropping B)...most of the farmland is held in large plots by wealthy landowners c)...high rents D) ...poverty / lack of capital on the part of farmers.

this is the diagram questions 15 is referring to

Answer 1

Answer-14) correct option: B) 1 million of gallons to irrigation and 2 millions of gallons to drinking

Explanation- if quantity supplied = 3 (Mil, gal) , then the corresponding price given by the total demand curve is $1.4. Now at the price of $1.4, the quantity demanded of water for irrigation is 1 million gallons while that for drinking is 2 million gallons.