Articles on implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), State Water Board intervention, land subsidence, groundwater recharge, contamination, markets, banking and storage.
By Dan Walters, Cal Matters President Donald Trump is obsessed with how California manages its water supply, demanding changes as one price of giving the state billions of dollars in aid to cope with Southern California’s deadly and destructive wildfires....
By NASA’s Earth Observatory As part of a broader effort to improve understanding of sea level rise, researchers have published new estimates of California’s vertical land motion—also known as uplift and subsidence—between 2015 and 2023. They detailed where land beneath...
Local agencies have until June to address final deficiencies in plans Citing significant progress in the plans of groundwater sustainability agencies to address the long-term viability of groundwater supplies and critical water infrastructure in the Kern County Subbasin, the State...
By the State Water Resources Control Board Water Code section 1242.1 allows parties to divert for groundwater recharge without a water right if in compliance with certain requirements. On January 31, 2025, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued Executive Order N-16-25 to facilitate...
Natalie Stork, director of the State Water Resources Control Board’s Office of Sustainable Groundwater Management, spoke at the 2025 California Irrigation Institute conference about the state’s intervention process for groundwater management. She provided updates on six San Joaquin Valley groundwater...
