Western Water Markets: Overview of Legal & Policy Considerations

July 16, 2025

Presenter, The National Agricultural Law Center: "Western Water" Webinar Series

Join Downey Brand water rights attorney Brian Hamilton on July 16, 2025, at Noon ET for a webinar on Western water markets, with insights into recent legal and policy developments shaping their future. Brian will be speaking alongside Brett Bovee, the Intermountain Regional Director at WestWater Research.

Water markets are a functional way that Western states are able to maintain a robust system of water rights but also allow water users to adapt to changing water supply conditions and the growth of new demand sectors. This webinar will provide an introductory understanding of Western water markets, with a focus on legal and policy considerations of these markets. After providing a foundation on the scale of current water market activity, the hosts will dive into recent legal and policy actions that could have an impact on future market activity.

For more information about Brian’s presentation, please see this media announcement.

To register, please visit the event webpage.

The National Agricultural Law Center, a unit of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, serves as the nation’s leading source of objective, scholarly, and authoritative agricultural and food law research and information, serving public and private sector stakeholders – producers, federal and state lawmakers, policymakers, land grant university faculty and academics, attorneys, and others — throughout the United States. It is the only agricultural and food law research and information facility that is independent, national in scope, and directly connected to the national agricultural information network.