We know AquaShares is a market design firm that works to build water resilience through transparency, trading and trust. Less appreciated is that we are also, at root, a "risk management" company.  We help families, farmers, and firms reduce their...

  The Rights-Based Revolutions Beneath the Surface   Political struggles over flows for spawning salmon have led Californians to imagine that the interests and outlook of  commercial fishermen and irrigation farmers are diametrically opposed.  Yet...

 How Local Markets Replenish Our Most Priceless Resource In the heart of Silicon Valley, a TEDx event organized at Santa Clara University focused on the theme of "Mythos." When we think about our past, the identities of our different cultures, and  the...

For centuries, transparent water exchanges have built resilience across diverse cultures.

How self-governing water exchanges can unlock more frequent, granular, and reliable information.

 Presentation shows how diverse stakeholders can carefully design equitable conservation markets for surface or groundwater. In an address to the annual conference of groundwater authorities, Workman, a native Californian, describes the worsening...

“We’re helping establish the groundwater equivalents to a farmer’s market: an institution for trading finite resources, self-organized and self-regulated by diverse stakeholders, building trust through voluntary, accountable and transparent transactions.”

“While saltwater seafood and freshwater aquifers seem utterly distinct ecosystems, the two resources benefit from sharing a similar market-driven, rights-based approach.”