Articles on implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), State Water Board intervention, land subsidence, groundwater recharge, contamination, markets, banking and storage.
The Department of Water Resources and Sustainable Conservation have released new guidance documents for groundwater recharge: On-Farm Recharge Methods Manual...
A new report, authored by experts from organizations including The Nature Conservancy, the Union of Concerned Scientists, Audubon California, and Clean Water Action, provides a set of recommendations on how California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act can better protect vulnerable communities...
From the Bureau of Reclamation: Central Valley Project contractors accessed hundreds of thousands of acre-feet of floodwater provided by Reclamation...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water Since the devastating floods of March 10, a community of about 1,000 people has been paying, on average, $150 a month for undrinkable water that is only available intermittently. So far, no government agencies have...
From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced today the approval of groundwater sustainability plans for 10 non-critically overdrafted groundwater basins located across California. The approved basins are East Bay Plain, East Contra Costa, Ukiah...
Groundwater is a critical resource, supplying nearly 40% of the state with water to support cities and farms. With droughts increasing in severity and frequency and climate change putting stress on local communities across the state, it has become increasingly...
By Paul Gosselin, DWR Deputy Director of Sustainable Groundwater Management Some may be asking after this extremely wet water year — how is California progressing towards sustainable groundwater management and efforts to recharge groundwater basins? Local agencies, with state support, have...
