About WWIWorld Water Institute is a pending 501(c)(3) nonprofit research organization dedicated to finding solutions to the word's most pressing water challenges. We serve as a think tank built on 40 years of published research from thought leaders in academia, business, and government. Our function is generating research, disseminating information, and forming collaborative partnerships that increase awareness about the practice of water trading and support establishing water markets worldwide. We believe our innovative research supports the only solution that guarantees a HYDROSUSTAINABILE future for our planet.Our ChallengeHeightened resource scarcity and drought makes it more difficult for farmers and irrigators to borrow money, secure mortgages, obtain insurance, and sell or lease water rights. Water transfers between willing rights holders has long been an effective strategy for improving resource allocation in water risk-prone regions around the world. However, wide-scale use of water trading has yet to materialize, primarily due to complex legal, political and social barriers associated with implementation.Our ImpactIn practice, WWI is a think tank built on 40 years of published research from thought leaders in academia, business, and government. Our partners bring together disciplines of economics, finance, natural resource management and law to develop, research and analyze innovative solutions to public water policy issues. We also partner with Water Strategist and the newly launched Journal of Water, which adds invaluable historical research, water economics, policy and data expertise to WWI's knowledge bank.Our PartnersWWI's University Research Partner Program enables passionate faculty at campuses around the world to pioneer market-based water management curriculum into their classrooms and prepare students to enter the workforce, equipped with skills to formulate real-world solutions to global water resource challenges.