Groundwater Trading Pilot Program for Local Agriculture – Bakersfield, CA

By Don Graham from Redlands, CA, USA – God bless it! – San Joaquin Valley and Canal, CA 8-10, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link

 

Groundwater trading program, first of its kind in the Central Valley, is being designed  (Jim SCOTT, KGET-17; August 9, 2019)

https://www.kget.com/news/local-news/groundwater-trading-program-first-of-its-kind-for-central-valley-is-being-designed/

Market-based program would encourage farmers to buy, sell local groundwater (John COX, Bakersfield Californian; July 8, 2019)

https://www.bakersfield.com/news/market-based-program-would-encourage-farmers-to-buy-sell-local/article_4cb8ac78-9f78-11e9-8699-5355ddd1aee8.html

Publications:

Groundwater Sustainability Plan Chapter for the ROSEDALE-RIO BRAVO Management Area                                                                          (Preliminary Draft Report; March 22, 2019)

https://www.rrbwsd.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2019-03-22a-com.-RRBMA-GSP-Draft-Chapter-No-Appendix.pdf

Groundwater Trading as a Tool for Implementing California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act                                                     (Environment Defense Fund/Mammoth Trading/Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute, 2017)

https://www.edf.org/sites/default/files/documents/water-markets.pdf

Past Event:

Water Exchange Market Symposium                                                        (California Water Institute, CSU Fresno; January 24, 2019)

http://www.californiawater.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Proceedings-waterexchange-Reduced.pdf

Website:

Rosedale-Rio Bravo Water Storage District

https://www.rrbwsd.com/