Water Rights Advisory & Transactions Since 2008
Southern California groundwater rights, transacted with market discipline and certainty.
EcoGas helps corporations, municipalities, investors and landowners buy, sell, lease and store groundwater rights across several of Southern California's largest adjudicated basins, with daily price discovery and hands-on trade execution.
Previous clients
- Chevron
- Costco
- U.S. EPA
- U.S. Navy
- GE
- Sherwin-Williams
- Libbey Glass
- USG Corporation
- Liberty Utilities
- City of Downey
- Exide Technologies
- Aqua Capital
- Smurfit Stone
- Rowland Water District
What we do
One point of contact, start to close.
Water rights trade over the counter, which means price, timing and documentation all depend on who is at the table. EcoGas runs the market daily and manages each deal from first quote to closing.
Buy water rights
Secure reliable groundwater supply for development, industry, agriculture or portfolio holdings, at prices grounded in current market evidence.
Sell water rights
Turn unused or surplus rights into capital. We position each sale to reach qualified buyers and protect value.
Lease water rights
Flexible, term-based access to supply, or income from rights you do not need this season.
Store groundwater
Arrange storage of water in basin accounts to carry supply across dry years and meet future demand.
Markets
Southern California's largest adjudicated basins.
Adjudicated basins have defined, tradable rights. EcoGas concentrates on the markets where that structure creates liquidity, and knows the rules, administrators and counterparties in each.
Central Basin
Los Angeles CountyWest Coast Basin
Los Angeles CountyAntelope Valley
Northern Los Angeles CountyMojave Basin
San Bernardino CountySan Gabriel Basin
Los Angeles CountyTrack record
We built these markets, then kept trading in them.
EcoGas brokered the first over-the-counter water rights transactions in several of the basins it serves, and has closed more than fifty transactions in the Central Basin alone.
Central Basin
First over-the-counter water rights transaction in the Los Angeles area.
West Coast Basin
First over-the-counter trade of West Coast Basin rights.
Antelope Valley
First over-the-counter water rights transaction in the Antelope Valley.
Central Basin deals
Transactions closed, with long-standing relationships among basin participants and administrators.
How it works
A disciplined process, from first call to close.
Quote and advise
Call for live pricing. We review your objectives, the rights involved and where the market stands today.
Match and negotiate
We bring the right counterparties together and negotiate terms on your behalf.
Document and close
Agreements, approvals and transfer are managed through to completion, so the deal closes cleanly.
Leadership
A pioneer of over-the-counter energy brokerage, online and offline. The first broker in Southern California water rights.
Ken Scott has spent nearly thirty years building over-the-counter markets where none existed. A founding team member at Prebon Energy, he was one of the very first OTC energy brokers in the United States and the first in Canada, opening markets in Canadian natural gas and U.S. coal. He then helped move energy trading online as a vice president at EonXchange, before turning to Southern California emission credits.
In 2008 he brokered the first over-the-counter water rights transaction in the Los Angeles area. Since then EcoGas has closed more than fifty Central Basin transactions and over $100 million in water rights for cities, water purveyors, federal agencies and major energy companies.
Every engagement is led at the principal level. Ken holds a degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Contact
Call today for live pricing and actionable market information.
Tell us what you are looking to buy, sell, lease or store.