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Mammoth Water acquired by ERA Economics

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We are delighted to announce that Mammoth Water was acquired by ERA Economics, and join a team that ours at Mammoth has long admired. The acquisition emerged organically out of…

Water Market Readiness: A rapid scoping toolkit

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Is your region water-market ready? Together with the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute, we built a scoping tool to help you answer your water market readiness based on five…

Trading water, saving water

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One of my favorite environmental institutes, PERC—the Property and Environment Research Center, asked me recently to write about market-based principles for water. Given the past year's media frenzy on water…

The High Costs of Water Markets

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How transaction costs price out small deals that could lead to big wins for agriculture Spoiler alert: It’s not the price of water that’s costing growers large gains from water…

New Insights for the Design of Groundwater Allocations

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As more agencies develop groundwater allocations, it’s important to understand how allocation design affects economic and environmental outcomes. You’ve heard by now that our groundwater resources are disappearing. We’ve pumped…

2020 Sustainable Ag Summit

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CEO Richael Young joins an expert panel at the 2020 Sustainable Ag Summit hosted by Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, National Pork Board, Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, U.S. Roundtable…

The High Costs of Water Trading

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Today at the American Water Resources-Washington Section (AWRA-WA) annual conference, Richael Young, CEO of Mammoth Water, presented on "The High Costs of Water Trading: How Transaction Costs Price Out Smaller…

Richael joins The Stream Podcast with Will & Tom

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In Episode 8: Smarter agricultural water trading, Richael Young, co-founder and CEO of Mammoth Water joins Will Sarni and Tom Freyberg on The Stream Podcast to discuss the need for…

Leveraging Data Science for Water & Ag on FLOW

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Mammoth Water CEO Richael Young joins other innovators in the water industry on FLOW's webinar to discuss how to leverage data science to improve outcomes in water and agriculture. Watch…

Trade-offs of groundwater allocation designs

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Mammoth Water CEO Richael Young and Professor Al Valocchi posed for the water policy paparazzi after sharing their work (with co-authors Tim Foster, Taro Mieno, and Mammoth Water co-founder Nick…

Techstars Sustainability Demo Day

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Mammoth Water is one of 10 companies accepted to the prestigious Techstars Sustainability Accelerator in partnership with The Nature Conservancy in 2019. At Demo Day, we presented what we've been…

Getting your feet wet with water markets

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Greetings, fellow Mammoths. Richael here. I recently had the honor of being a guest on Nori's Reversing Climate Change podcast. You haven't heard of Nori? You're kidding. Nori is a…

Techstars Sustainability Accelerator

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Mammoth Trading accepted into prestigious Techstars Sustainability Accelerator in Partnership with the Nature Conservancy Monday, July 29, 2019 Denver, CO—Mammoth Trading PBC is one of ten companies invited to participate…

Agricultural water transfers in the Western United States

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A new report co-produced by the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute (DWFI) and Mammoth Trading offers insight into the use of water transfers as a way to reduce water…

Groundwater trading for California

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About the report The Environmental Defense Fund and Mammoth Trading have just released a report describing how groundwater trading can be a compelling and cost-effective tool in achieving the goals of…

The Secret Life of Groundwater

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Did you know that we know more about the surface of Mars than we do about water use in our country? It's nuts, and I was shocked too when my…

Are markets an easy solution for California’s groundwater problems?

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By Nell Green Nylen and Michael Kiparsky It has become popular to lament how slowly California is embracing water markets. Proponents’ rhetoric can paint markets as an unambiguously better, or…

What are water markets? A little lesson on AgWired

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What are water markets? You asked, we answered! Following the 2017 Water for Food Global Conference, Mammoth Trading president and co-founder Richael Young sat down with Jamie Johansen of AgWired, a…

Groundwater Data, Analytics, and Markets: Innovation for Water Policy

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Water policy barriers to groundwater data deployment Mammoth Trading, in partnership with the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute, the Environmental Defense Fund, and Smart Water Metering is honored to be a…

In the news: How water swaps help the West manage a precious resource

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Water markets have the potential to improve farm incomes, the flows in our streams, and our ability to manage water flexibly. They generate new revenue streams and incentives for water…

Year in review

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Mammoth Trading has had an exciting and busy year! In 2016, cofounder and president Richael Young took the plunge and began full-time work at Mammoth. We relocated upstream to Denver, Colorado to…

In the news: ‘Smart’ water markets take local regulations into account

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Markets monetize water rights and create new incentives to conserve. As producers becoming increasingly efficient with their water resources, we're developing tools that help their bottom line. Our thanks to…

Trade water with us at World Water Week

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Mammoth Trading, in partnership with the Water for Food Global Institute and The Rockefeller Foundation, is hosting a live demonstration on water markets at the 2016 World Water Week. Participants…

We’ve migrated!

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We've moved (but just upstream)! Mammoth Trading is now based in Denver, Colorado. We are grateful to our friends and colleagues in Lincoln, Nebraska who supported us the last two years.

White House Water Summit

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Richael Young, Mammoth Trading President & Cofounder, outside of the White House on World Water Day Mammoth Trading president and cofounder Richael Young was among a select number of individuals…

Participating in the White House Water Summit

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On World Water Day, March 22, the Obama administration is hosting the first-ever White House Water Summit. Approximately 150 top water leaders will discuss drought, management, and innovative technologies to…

Why markets fail: Part II

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People often misunderstand how markets work—and why they fail. As our team has gone around the world to learn about them, two primary, and underappreciated, issues emerge. In this two-part…

Why markets fail: Part I

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People often misunderstand how markets work—and why they fail. As our team has gone around the world to learn about them, two primary, and underappreciated, issues emerge. In this two-part…

Three rules of water markets: Local, local, local

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Our team wrote a letter to the editor in response to Scott Moore’s Op-Ed, “Water Pricing, Not Engineering, Will Ease Looming Water Shortages.” While it didn’t get published in the…

California groundwater

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In response to California’s enduring drought and groundwater management crisis, cofounder Nick Brozović had a few words.   To the Editor: Re “Watering California’s Farms” (editorial, April 5): California is…

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