Two Rivers Water and Farming Co. (fka TURV)

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$TURV mmh ? Industry related: Water rights

Companies with water rights also will prosper as water rates rise, Berlant says. So, listed farming companies such as J.G. Boswell Co. of Pasadena, Calif., and Limoneira Co. of Santa Paula, Calif., which own extensive farmland tracts with water rights, could see their values rise. For example, J.G. Boswell, the country’s largest cotton producer, owns 150,000 acres in California, along with lots of water rights.

Hoffmann says that for investors with deep pockets, private equity funds might make sense as they plow more money into water rights.
By 2016, private sector water investments eventually will account for 30 percent of investments in drinking water and wastewater compared to 19 percent now, according to the independent Global Water Fund consultancy.

For example, NGP Global Adaptation Partners, a private equity firm in Irving, Texas, whose parent firm, Natural Gas Partners, has $10.8 billion under management, has started investing in water. “We invest in water rights in the western U.S.,” says Jud Hill, an operating partner at NGP. “We buy farms and farmland, which have senior water rights.”

Hill says it’s a great time to invest in water as people rethink how they use water and how much they need. “We have a fixed amount of water and growing demand,” he says.

http://www.bankrate.com/investing/5-water-investments-to-consider/