Articles on implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), State Water Board intervention, land subsidence, groundwater recharge, contamination, markets, banking and storage.
By Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization and winner of multiple Pulitzer prizes, recently published a report “The Drying Planet.” They report that “Moisture lost to evaporation and...
By David Saint-Amand, board president of the Indian Wells Valley Water District This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Re: “How deep-pocketed groundwater users are stalling California’s sustainability plans” Assembly Bill 1413 seeks to quietly...
From the Department of Water Resources: DWR has released an approximately 30-minute lecture-style presentation video about a key concept presented in the draft BMP document: the role of critical head in managing land subsidence. Groundwater managers and practitioners may be...
ASU-led research uses 20 years of satellite data to reveal unprecedented continental drying New findings from studying over two decades of satellite observations reveal that the Earth’s continents have experienced unprecedented freshwater loss since 2002, driven by climate change, unsustainable...
“Best management practices” will help local water managers combat sinking lands & protect critical water infrastructure From the Department of Water Resources: For almost a century, parts of California have been gradually sinking, impacting critical infrastructure and the communities who...
