Rosedale–Rio Bravo Water Accounting and Trading Platform: A pilot project advancing sustainable groundwater management

For the first time in California's history, local groundwater agencies are required to balance groundwater supply and demand by 2040 and 2042 to create a more resilient water system for generations to come.

Rosedale-Rio Bravo Water Storage District (Rosedale) has co-developed the first open-source water accounting and trading platform in the Central Valley to address this challenge.

As California transitions into a new era of groundwater management, this platform will help Rosedale's stakeholders — and others who would like to adopt the open-source tool — to sustainably manage their precious groundwater resources.