Articles on implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), State Water Board intervention, land subsidence, groundwater recharge, contamination, markets, banking and storage.
By Jim Mayer and Michael Saunders By any honest measure, California is living in water extremes. Long droughts empty reservoirs, idle farmland, and impact our environment. Then, atmospheric rivers roar through the Sacramento Valley, sending millions of acre-feet of freshwater...
From the State Water Board: Understanding, managing, and regulating nonpoint source pollution of groundwater is a challenge for California. Nonpoint...
By Monserrat Solis, SJV Water The California Supreme Court denied a petition by the Kings County Farm Bureau to review whether the Fifth District Court of Appeal properly reversed a preliminary injunction against the state last year. Despite the set...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The groundwater in parts of western Kern County is salty and, generally, considered a bit crummy, longtime farmer Brad Kroeker admits. But that doesn’t mean it should be abandoned to wholesale pollution as Kroeker believes...
By Monserrat Solis, SJV Water The South Fork Kings Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) approved a pumping allocation during a Jan. 15 board meeting. The policy will allow Lemoore-area pumpers to extract a base amount of .86 acre feet per acre...
California’s continued partnership with locals will serve as the key to safeguarding groundwater-reliant communities and infrastructure from land sinking Press...
By Jim Peifer, Executive Director of the Regional Water Authority In the late 1990s, Sacramento-area water providers worked together to address an alarming, decades-long decline in the region’s groundwater supply. Today, that collaboration is producing benefits far beyond groundwater recharge....
