Economic and financial factors
From Water Wiki
As with all public policy issues, water allocation is deeply affected both by the structure of public institutions (such as laws, rules and agencies) and by market forces. But water has a simultaneous public nature (as a common pool resource) and private nature (when captured, that is, used). It's not really possible to speak of purely private markets for water (other than markets operating outside the law), nor is it realistic, at least in the United States, to imagine water allocation taking place completely outside the realm of private property interests. The economic and financial factors shaping its allocation reflect this dual nature.
Some of the important economic and financial factors shaping water allocation--factors that are directly concern with markets and money flows--are
