Articles on implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), State Water Board intervention, land subsidence, groundwater recharge, contamination, markets, banking and storage.
A new study maps, for the first time, the permanent loss of aquifer storage capacity occurring globally From the Desert Research Institute: Global water resources are stretched by climate change and human population growth, and farms and cities are increasingly...
From the Department of Water Resources: On October 30, 2023, DWR released its Groundwater Sustainability Plan Implementation: A Guide to Annual Reports,...
Officials celebrate start of $211 million High Desert Water Bank, Metropolitan’s largest-ever investment in groundwater storage From the Metropolitan Water District: After three years of construction, the first stage of a critical new groundwater storage project is complete and water...
By: Justin Fredrickson, a water and environmental policy analyst for the California Farm Bureau A Public Policy Institute of California report last month warned of historic challenges for the state’s leading agricultural region under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. The...
From the Department of Water Resources (DWR): The Department of Water Resources is sharing new data on the state’s groundwater basins that is starting to bring into focus how last winter’s storms impacted a critical water supply for millions of...
Press release from the Flood MAR Network: The Flood-MAR Network, a community driven collaborative initiative aimed at advancing Flood-Managed Aquifer...
By Joe Mouawad, general manager of Eastern Municipal Water District, and Jim Peifer, executive director of the Regional Water Authority Another wet winter seems likely for California, giving us another chance to recharge groundwater aquifers with captured storm runoff. But...
