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    Groundwater Trading

    Metadata Updated: March 23, 2026

    The Water Resiliency Portfolio (2020) tasked the four State agencies to “create flexibility for GSAs to trade water within basins by enabling and incentivizing transactional approaches, including groundwater markets, with rules that safeguard natural resources, small- and medium-size farms, and water supply and quality for disadvantaged communities.” This direction is spelled out as Action 3.6. In 2021, the California Water Commission (Commission) was tasked to take initial steps to advance Action 3.6, and in 2022, the Commission's White Paper (https://cwc.ca.gov/-/media/CWC-Website/Files/Documents/2022/05_May/May2022_Item_10_Attach_1_WhitePaper_Final.pdf) identifies potential State actions and suggests that “with DWR as the lead agency, [the four State agencies] develop a workplan for implementing Action 3.6…”.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date March 23, 2026
    Metadata Updated Date March 23, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from State of California

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date March 23, 2026
    Metadata Updated Date March 23, 2026
    Publisher California Department of Water Resources
    Maintainer
    Identifier e4586bf9-be0e-4691-9fac-763ca9ce9192
    Data First Published 2026-02-25T17:43:54.977692
    Data Last Modified 2026-02-25T19:54:36.838321
    Category Natural Resources, Water
    Public Access Level public
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id f5c52955-9f5d-4f34-9a06-bce0e5101e6c
    Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
    Harvest Source Title State of California
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 5ee985662f53e140a25d5019b60ce4a243d2364ef21e7e3ba0db76aee24e9734
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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