Mojave Alto Subarea Market Indicator: Expect Trends to Continue

Originally published in Journal of Water, Fall 2018

In 1996, the Final Judgment in the Mojave River Basin Adjudication established a “physical solution” to address overdraft conditions and ensure that downstream users received sufficient surface or subsurface flow from upstream areas. The basin was divided into five hydrologically-related, but distinct subareas—Alto (Upper Basin), Baja (Lower Basin), Cen…