The Value of Water in the Real Estate Industry
Brett Bovee recently wrote a short article for the Colorado Real Estate Journal describing basic concepts in valuing water rights, and providing some basic water market statistics for the Northern Colorado region. The article explains the underlying concepts that frame how water rights are valued in transactions and how WestWater often looks at the value […]
WestWater Intern Explores Water Credit Trading Idea in Eastern Idaho
Last summer, WestWater intern Ryan Shepler conducted an analysis of different ways that groundwater irrigators in Eastern Idaho could meet groundwater use reduction obligations imposed by a 2015 settlement agreement with senior-priority surface water users. An on-farm crop budget analysis showed that a credit trading program could provide economic efficiency across the groundwater districts as […]
The Water Report Features the 2016 Tribal Water Summit
Over the past four decades, tribal water rights have continued to be resolved to provide tribes in the Western states with firm quantities of water to use on their reservation lands and also to lease off-reservation. The quantified but under-utilized water rights of tribes represent an important and often over-looked aspect of Western water management. […]
WestWater Research is Hiring
WestWater Research is currently seeking qualified applicants to fill positions in our Idaho, Colorado, and Arizona offices. We are looking for a Research Analyst to join our Phoenix, AZ team. The Research Analyst is responsible for researching and analyzing water right trading activity in key market areas and providing general support to valuation, transaction, and economic consulting […]
Texas Legislature: Water Market Hearing
Clay Landry, Managing Director of WestWater Research along with Wes Strickland of Jackson Walker, LLP recently testified as part of an expert panel before the Texas House of Representatives – Natural Resources Committee regarding the status of water markets in Texas. This testimony was provided as part of an interim committee’s charge to evaluate of the status of water markets in Texas and the […]
As California Dries Out, The Water Market Heats Up
WestWater Research is providing an updated Water Market Insider issue. This quarter, we focus on California’s Spot Market Price Forecast. Prices and trading on the spot market for water in California are projected to rise this year, driven by reduced state and federal project water allocations. WestWater Research expects that high-value agriculture and coastal cities […]