Real Water Prices
The most recent permanent C-BT water sales - actual transactions, not surveys or estimates - set the anchor.
100 x current fix / baseline fixColorado River Basin Historical Replay
Colorado Water PriceFour-Year Sample
CMDT's benchmark for Colorado water, built on real transaction prices from the most actively traded water market in the American West and adjusted daily for supply conditions.
Daily benchmark intelligence
Price Discovery Meets Water Supply
Real Colorado water transactions set the price. Storage, snowpack, streamflow, and drought move it daily.
Methodology at a glance
Water Prices + Hydrology = CMDT Water Index
Real water sales and transactions set the price. Storage, snowpack, streamflow, and drought adjust it daily.
Real Water Conditions
Reservoir storage, snowpack, streamflow, and drought are measured from official government sources and combined into a single daily supply signal.
mean z(storage, SWE, flow, PDSI, -DSCI, quota)One Daily Index
A bounded multiplier scales the anchor price by the supply signal's deviation from its seasonal baseline - small adjustments in normal conditions, larger ones as scarcity or surplus deepens.
headline x clip(1 - 0.15 x supply z, 0.7, 1.5)