Water for Food International Forum: Trading Water and Managing Groundwater Sustainably

This document discusses water trading and groundwater management in California. It defines water trading as temporary, long-term, or permanent trades of water rights or contracts. Water trading matters for water-limited regions like California as it can reduce drought costs, accommodate demand shifts, and help adapt to climate change. However, water trading requires infrastructure to connect sources and destinations, and protections like preventing unreasonable harm to other users and local economic impacts. California's extensive infrastructure facilitates long-distance water trades. The document also summarizes California's 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act and its requirements for local agencies to attain sustainability goals like balanced water levels and reduced overdrafting through strategies like cooperative recharging programs and water trading within basins.

Trading Water and Managing Groundwater
Sustainably: Insights from California
Ellen Hanak
Water Policy Center, Public
Policy Institute of California

What is water trading and why does it
matter?
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• Water trading: temporary, long-term or permanent trades of rights or
contracts to use water
• Why it matters for water-limited regions like California:
• Reducing costs of drought
• Accommodating shifts in demand
• Adapting to a changing climate

Trading has requirements and constraints
• Infrastructure
• To connect source/destination
• To get/store/retrieve water from banks
• Protections
• No injury (unreasonable harm) to other water users (including fish
& wildlife)
• Should also aim to prevent, mitigate significant local economic
harm in source regions
3

California’s extensive infrastructure facilitates
trading, even across long distances
4
Counties in the market

California’s 2014 Sustainable Groundwater
Management Act
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• 127 priority basins, > 250 sustainability
agencies
• Local sustainability plans due in Jan.
2020 or 2022
• 20 years to fully attain sustainability
goals:
• Water levels
• Aquifer storage
• Water quality
• Seawater intrusion
• Land subsidence
• Surface water, ecosystem impacts

In overdrafted basins, attaining balance
means more recharge, less water use, or both
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 Cooperative recharge programs
can help capture extra water in wet
years
 Trading within basins can lower
costs of reducing water use
 This requires partnerships…and
transparent monitoring,
accounting systems for basins that
everyone can trust

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