Groundwater Trading as a Tool for Implementing California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) | December 8th, 2017

Summary

Until recently, the State of California lacked comprehensive groundwater management policy. While many basins havebeen adjudicated in court or have adopted voluntary grou

How are Western water districts managing groundwater basins?

California Agriculture (UCANR) | March 13th, 2018

Summary

Making the transition from open-access groundwater rights to sustainable groundwater management is a formidable task for newly formed groundwater sustainability age

Incentive-based Instruments for Freshwater Management

Pacific Institute | December 1st, 2015

Summary

This new synthesis report from the Pacific Institute and the Foundation Center provides a review of existing evidence about the use of incentive-based instruments worldwi

Information Needs for Water Markets

University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) | March 14th, 2024

Summary

This report is part of a larger project to better understand how institutional context affects the potential for water markets to enhance climate resilience for agricultu

Legal Change and Water Market Transaction Costs in Colorado

American Geophysical Union (AGU) | January 29th, 2020

Summary

Water markets are commonly described as failing to achieve efficient water management because of transaction cost barriers to trade. In the western United States, two sou

Measuring Cost-Effectiveness of Environmental Water Transactions

Klamath Riverkeeper | August 4th, 2016

Summary

The diversion, storage and consumptive use of water in the western United States (US) has drastically altered streamflow, water quality and a raft of ecological, social a

Optimization of environmental water purchases with uncertainty

American Geophysical Union (AGU) | August 5th, 2006

Summary

Water managers are turning increasingly to market solutions to meet new environmental demands for water in fully allocated systems. This paper presents a three-stage pr

Recent California Water Transfers: Implications for Water Management

Natural Resources Journal (University of New Mexico) | January 3rd, 1995

Summary

The 1991 and 1992 California Drought Emergency Water Banks were the first large water transfer programs in the nation in which the state served as the predominant broke

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