From National Review:
…Reducing barriers to water trading would enable the West to better adapt to water shortages while also addressing environmental concerns. A 2018 report published by PERC and the R Street Institute offered several reform ideas, including allowing users to keep or sell unused water, eliminating restrictions on changing the use of water, expediting short-term lease approvals, and recognizing aquifer storage as a valid water use. In California, for example, recharging depleted groundwater aquifers is not considered a “beneficial use” and therefore is not a legally valid use of water rights…
