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Summary:
Regulated market mechanisms can be used to improve flexibility and responsiveness of water management to support human and environmental water use. These mechanisms have greater potential for economic and environmental success than traditional water projects, contracts and regulations.
Primary Reading:
- Chapter 7, pages 315-348
Primary Video:
- Filling Funding Gaps in California's Water System (5 min, 2014)
Additional Readings & Videos by Topic:
Groundwater Law
- Hap Dunning: A legal overview of CA Groundwater Management (Video, 24 min, 2014)
- Funding Sustainable Groundwater Management in California (Reading, 2014)
- Groundwater and the Public Trust Doctrine (Reading, 2014)
Water Transfers
- Tim Quinn: Pursuing Co-equal Goals for California's Water Systems (Video, 20 min, 2013)
- Water Transfers 101 (Reading, 2014)
Independent System Operator (ISO)
- Modernizing California's Groundwater Management (Reading, 2014)
Funding Water Services
- Strengthening Water Markets in California (Video, 42 min, 2012)
- Paying for Water in California (Reading, 2014)
- Funding Water Services in California (Reading, 2014)
Keywords:
Reasonable Use Doctrine, Public Trust Doctrine, Groundwater pumping, Adjudicated basins, Groundwater overdraft, Water rights, Pre-1914 water rights, Riparian surface water rights, Water market, Water transfers, Transfer effects, Central Valley Project, State Water Project