From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today announced a second increase in the State Water Project (SWP) allocation forecast for 2024. The forecasted allocation is now 30 percent of requested supplies, up from the...
From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today released its Resource Guide for Funding Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) Implementation. The purpose of this high-level funding resource guide is to provide Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) with information that will support...
By Christine Souza, Ag Alert California’s landmark 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, which requires local agencies in affected basins to develop and implement plans that identify a roadmap to protect groundwater for generations to come, turns 10 this year. “If...
The report recommends policies, programs and tools for agricultural resilience. By Patty Guerra, UC Merced Water is among the most precious resources on the planet. Some areas don’t get enough; some get too much. And climate change is driving both...
Climate change projections for California indicate a future characterized by warmer temperatures, reduced snowfall, greater rainfall, and drier summer conditions....
In 2017, a nationwide assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey found that brackish groundwater in the nation’s aquifers is more than 800 times the amount currently used yearly. California’s Coastal Basin and Central Valley aquifers contain close to 7 billion...