Tools for Groundwater

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We are dedicated to sustainable resource management and to the long-term viability of California’s rich agricultural tradition.

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Market Design

A water market is a promising tool for regions seeking sustainable management, but careful design is essential. H2Omarkets specializes in a stakeholder-centered process of market design that responds to local conditions and addresses the needs of agricultural, urban, and environmental water users as well as regulators.

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Exchange Administration

Executing and recording trades are important parts of successful exchange administration, but stakeholder outreach, education of participants, accurate reporting, and careful monitoring are essential for a market to be successful. We’ve spent more than a decade honing the administrative processes crucial to smooth and successful market operation.

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Electronic Trading Platform

Trading software must do more than log, execute, and report trades. It must be customized to the particular allocation system and market rules. We’ve developed flexible software solutions that ensure that the governance system developed during the design process is faithfully implemented and that the market’s objectives are met.

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Flexible, stakeholder-centered solutions.

A water market is much more than an electronic bulletin board or sophisticated trading software. A market is a complex interaction of individuals and institutions. There is no off-the-shelf solution. The rules and structure of a particular market must be tailored to local conditions. Generating buy-in from diverse stakeholders and guarding against adverse impacts is essential. H2Omarkets specializes in facilitating a stakeholder-centered process of market design that promotes flexibility.

Experience that ensures smooth, sustainable operations.

We aim to facilitate the creation of effective water markets that provide benefits for all stakeholders. We understand water markets, including water markets within the unique context of SGMA. H2Omarkets has spent more than a decade in the trenches, working with stakeholders, designing and administering the first groundwater markets to be implemented in California under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA).

Modular electronic trading platform that fits local objectives.

At a minimum, a successful water market requires clear objectives, rules to achieve those objectives and a governance system with resources and the capacity to establish and enforce the rules. A digital trading platform should be evaluated in terms of its ability to support the objectives, rules and governance system designed in a particular basin. H2Omarkets offers a modular electronic trading platform that can be customized to fit the unique objectives and governance systems of different basins.