Articles on implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), State Water Board intervention, land subsidence, groundwater recharge, contamination, markets, banking and storage.
As droughts intensify and groundwater warms, contaminants can move into underground aquifers – threatening drinking water and agriculture. By Sanket...
By Monsserat Solis, SJV Water The directors of a Kings County water district didn’t like it, but they agreed to support a land assessment fee to pay for regulations to minimize the impacts of excessive groundwater pumping even though the...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Invoices for state groundwater pumping fees could be headed to the mailboxes of most Kings County farmers in the near future after a judge’s ruling last week. Fees of $20 per acre foot pumped had...
By Allison Hunter, SJV Water Small farmers in the San Joaquin Valley are struggling with groundwater regulations to the point that 85% of 170 farmers surveyed for a recently released report said they were concerned they would have to shut...
Curious how groundwater recharge efforts are progressing across California? This new Annual Groundwater Recharge Round-Up provides a statewide snapshot of...
From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) is pleased to announce the release of the 2026 Draft Sustainable Groundwater Management Grant Program Guidelines. The guideline’s focus is to administer a 2025 legislative directive of $3.5...
By Monserrat Solis, SJV Water One Kings County groundwater agency is gearing up to ask its growers to pay land assessment and pumping fees in order to fund agency policies that it hopes will help the region avoid state intervention....
