Water markets Archives

June 20, 2025

A new water market model for the Colorado River basin could improve water security and restore ecosystems amid intensifying shortages....

STANFORD NEWS: For the Colorado River and beyond, a new market could save the day

Stanford University

Colorado River

April 20, 2024

Stanford economist Paul Milgrom won a Nobel Prize in part for his role in enabling today’s mobile world. Now he’s...

ASPEN JOURNALISM: Auction of Colorado River water nets $4.7 million

Aspen Journalism

Colorado River

February 16, 2024

Bidders paid an average of $74,600 per acre-foot By Heather Sackett, Aspen Journalism Longmont dairy farmer Jim Docheff has been...

SJV WATER: Farmers in Tulare County set to test groundwater market they hope could help keep them in business and replenish the aquifer

SJV Water

Groundwater News

February 2, 2024

By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water How will selling groundwater help keep more groundwater in the San Joaquin Valley’s already critically...

VOICE OF SAN DIEGO: San Diego gears up to deal water across the west

Voice of San Diego

Colorado River

October 3, 2023

Twenty years since San Diego bought Colorado River water from its farming neighbors, it seeks to attract investors in its...

CA WATER COMMISSION: Dr. Newsha Ajami: Enhancing Regional Water Sustainability through Virtual Water Trading

Maven

Best of the Notebook Notebook News and Features Planning and management Policy and regulation

August 11, 2021

In March of this year, the Secretaries of the Natural Resources Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, and Department of Food and...

WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: California Water Transfer Price Forecast

Maven

Groundwater News Notebook News and Features

October 22, 2020

At the Western Groundwater Congress hosted online by the Groundwater Resources Association, Audrey Arnao, an associate with WestWater Research, gave...

SJV WATER: Price of water going up as the snowpack shrinks

SJV Water

Current Conditions Water supply augmentation

March 4, 2020

By Lois Henry, SJV Water Another block of water has been offered for sale in Kern County at $950 per...

SJV WATER: Irrigation water prices under SGMA causing sticker shock

SJV Water

Groundwater News

February 6, 2020

By Lois Henry, SJV Water Reaction was hushed when Rosedale-Rio Bravo Water Storage District General Manager Eric Averett asked the...

SJV WATER: It’s all about water markets

SJV Water

Water supply augmentation

April 1, 2019

By Lois Henry, SJV Water Almonds take too much water. Wait, alfalfa is the bad guy. What about those water...

Shopping for water: How the market can mitigate water shortages in the American West

Maven

Best of the Notebook Notebook News and Features Water supply augmentation

November 19, 2014

In October of 2014, the Hamilton Project and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment hosted a forum, New Directions...

Water Marketing, Groundwater Banking & Drought Management in California

Maven

Best of the Notebook Groundwater News Notebook News and Features Water supply augmentation

November 17, 2014

The University of California’s Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCANR) has developed a series of webinars titled Insights: Water and Drought...

Water transfers at the California Water Commission, part 1: An overview of California’s Transfer Market and DWR’s activities related to transfers

Maven

Notebook News and Features Water supply augmentation

March 27, 2014

Water transfers can be an effective way to address shortages and add flexibility to the system, especially in dry years,...

Guest blogger: Worried about the drought? Let farmers buy and sell water

Maven

Commentary

February 21, 2014

Today’s guest blogger is David Zetland of the Aguanomics blog, who wrote this exclusively for Maven’s Notebook: “California is gripped...