This source accounts for about 10% of all the water that enters this highly productive farmland, including rivers and rain....
What if valleys — carved by glaciers during the last ice age and filled over millennia with highly permeable sand —extended down into California’s drought-addled Central Valley and could channel rain and snowmelt into aquifers like a storm drain? Some...
By DWR News The wet winter storms in January 2023 have brought a lot of water that has the potential...
Streamlined permitting helps capture stormwater in Sacramento, Merced counties Press release from the State Water Resources Control Board: Furthering state...
By Andrew Fisher, University of California, Santa Cruz California has seen so much rain over the past few weeks that farm fields are inundated and normally dry creeks and drainage ditches have become torrents of water racing toward the ocean....
By Lois Henry, SJV Water A high-desert groundwater agency in eastern Kern County that’s in the midst of buying water...
Residents and growers in the driest land in California’s Central Valley are struggling to decide who gets priority water first....
By Christine Souza, Ag Alert Already grappling with drought, lower commodity prices and higher production costs, more farmers are feeling the added pinch of groundwater regulations as local agencies implement plans that include pumping limits and new fees to balance...
By Christine Souza, Ag Alert Balancing the state’s groundwater supplies for a sustainable future may not be easy due to...
As regions around the world face record-breaking droughts, researchers are using seismology to track groundwater levels and show that sustainable...
Guest commentary by Michael DeLapa, executive director of LandWatch Monterey County, and Chelsea Tu, executive director of Monterey Waterkeeper In 2014 California finally joined other western states by enacting groundwater management legislation. The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) requires local...
From DWR News California’s new water year started on October 1 and with continued warm and dry weather in the...
From the Department of Water Resources: Within the State of California, Tribes and underrepresented communities face many challenges accessing clean,...
From the Department of Water Resources: Today, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) released a determination on groundwater sustainability plans (GSPs) developed by local agencies to meet the requirements of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) in the Madera...