All Research:
Water Conservation
Pay a Farmer, Save the Colorado?
Agriculture uses the vast majority of water in the arid West. Shouldn’t there be simple ways to trade the valuable resource?
How Federal Laws Undermine Native American Water Rights
Tribes could help bridge gaps between water supply and demand in the Colorado River Basin—if it weren’t for federal restrictions
The Water Beneath the Desert
A groundwater market in the Mojave Desert offers lessons for California and beyond
Trout Water
A firsthand account of the legislative quest to reform Utah water law and allow conservationists to protect fish and wildlife habitat
Clear As Mud
A half-century after the Clean Water Act was enacted, there’s still no clear answer as to what it regulates. A new Supreme Court case may finally provide some clarity.
Keep It in the Ground
Innovative use of an old conservation tool helps save a western aquifer
The Water Wars That Weren’t
Technology and trade can ensure water scarcity is not a constraint on progress
A Plan to Solve the Colorado River Crisis
What if farmers competed with one another to cut water consumption?
Water, Eagles, and Wildfire
A podcast about the role of markets in conserving eagles and water, and how litigation stymies forest restoration work.