This collaborative project with the Pacific Institute was done to socialize a simple cost-effectiveness metric, the Levelized Cost of Water, for companies to use along with other considerations when choosing which projects to fund in their Corporate Water Stewardship programs.

AMP Insights staff have supported the Walker Basin Restoration Program since 2010. Under Public Law 111-85, the Walker Basin Restoration Program (WBRP) is charged with restoring and maintaining Walker Lake, as well as protecting agricultural, environmental, and habitat interests consistent with that primary purpose.

This project began with funding from the Pisces Foundation to develop metrics for assessing cost-effectiveness of environmental water transactions in an effort to create standards and protocols for adoption as part of the California Water Bond process and by other regional transaction efforts.