Articles on implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), State Water Board intervention, land subsidence, groundwater recharge, contamination, markets, banking and storage.
The state could embrace “policy synergy” to deploy solar in areas transitioning out of agriculture, but the transmission lines must come first. By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Inside Climate News. This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent...
The Stockton East Water District and the California Department of Water Resources filed a 180-day temporary water right permit application (T033357) with the State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights, to divert 3,200 acre-feet of water to underground...
Groundwater plans, largely serving low-income Latino communities, were deemed inadequate for preventing dry wells and sinking land. By Alastair Bland, Cal Matters State water officials on Thursday rejected six local groundwater plans for the San Joaquin Valley, where basins providing...
Department of Water Resources Will Transmit Six Basin Determinations to State Water Board, Beginning State Intervention Process From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today announced decisions for groundwater sustainability plans (GSPs) for 12 critically...
By Lisa McEwen Growers in the San Joaquin Valley are hurriedly building temporary groundwater sinking basins to take advantage of inexpensive, uncontrolled seasonal water. And they are racing to replenish underground water supplies that could carry them through drier years...
