Chino Basin Water Market Indicator: New Circumstances May Change Market Trends

Originally published in Journal of Water, Winter 2018

A market has developed among members of the Appropriative Pool in the Chino Basin in Southern California. The Chino Basin has a long history beginning with the execution of a Memorandum of Agreement in 1974, a judgement adjudicating the basin in 1978, the development of the Optimum Basin Management Program in 1998, execution of the Peace Agreement in 20…