Water Quality Trading
Foreign Trading Programs
| Australia |
- Hunter River Salinity Trading - Homepage
- Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme
- 2010 Credit Auction Report
- 2008/09 Scheme Performance Report - 2004 Presentation: Salinity and Nutrient Trading in Australia
- 2004 Research Report: "Establishing the Potential for Offset Trading In the Lower Fitzroy River"
- Australian National Market-based Instruments Pilot Program
- South Creek Bubble Licensing Scheme
| Canada |
- 2006 Report: "Can Water Quality Trading Help to Address Agricultural Sources of Pollution in Canada?"
- Bill 99 Lake Simcoe Protection Act: to protect and restore the ecological health of the Lake Simcoe Watershed and to amend the Ontario Water Resources Act in respect of Water Quality Trading (see Section 30)
- South Nation River Watershed (Ontario):
- Webpage
- Project Summary
- South Nation Conservation Total Phosphorous Management Instruments
- Phosphorous Loading Algorithms for South Nation River
- Article: "Success Story: South Nation River Watershed" - Briefing Note: "Water Quality Trading 1: Scientific Considerations for Agricultural Pollutants"
- 2008 Compendium to Lake Simcoe Protection Act
| China |
- 1998 Tradable Discharge Permits System for Water Pollution: Case Study of Upper Nanpan River, China
- Sloping Lands Conservation Program: "Grain for Green" - Program utilizes an intermediary-based transaction (local government) internal trading payment mechanism where the central government allocates funding for compensation to farmers setting aside part of their cropland.
| Honduras |
- Jesus De Otoro: A program focusing on water quality and reducing water pollution using improved management practices and a point system to determine payments.
| India |
- Sukhomairi: Community Watershed Management - Focuses on water quality through participatory integrated watershed management projects using best management practices. Their payment mechanism is an NGO intermediary-based transaction and tradable water rights/user fees.
| Kenya |
- Kenya Integrated Ecosystem Project: A Market Design stategy for Water Quality to reduce erosion and pollutants into Lake Victoria and also includes carbon credits from tree planting and biodiversity.
| Netherlands |
- Dutch Nutrient Quota System Presentation and Report
| New Zealand |
- 2007 Working Paper: "Nutrient Trading in Lake Rotorua: Where Are We Now?"
| Regional Programs |
- Silvio Pastoral: Columbia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua
Regional Integrated Silvopastoral Ecosystem Management Project
