Articles on implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), State Water Board intervention, land subsidence, groundwater recharge, contamination, markets, banking and storage.
From the Office of the Governor: Governor Gavin Newsom today signed an executive order to protect the state’s water supplies from the impacts of climate-driven extremes in weather. After years of prolonged drought, recent storms resulted in the wettest three-week...
Communities, largely home to low-income Latino residents, still have dry wells. Restoring groundwater takes decades, with costly, long-term replenishment projects...
By DWR News The Department of Water Resources’ (DWR) innovative Statewide Airborne Electromagnetic (AEM) Survey Project has now released AEM data for the entire Central Valley of California, marking a major milestone for the program. Over 11,500 line-miles of AEM...
This source accounts for about 10% of all the water that enters this highly productive farmland, including rivers and rain. By NASA/JPL In a recent study, scientists found that a previously unmeasured source – water percolating through soil and fractured...
Streamlined permitting helps capture stormwater in Sacramento, Merced counties Press release from the State Water Resources Control Board: Furthering state efforts to capture and preserve stormwater during high flow events, the State Water Resources Control Board this week issued its...
Residents and growers in the driest land in California’s Central Valley are struggling to decide who gets priority water first. By Natalie Hansen, Courthouse News Service Noemi Barrera has spent four months without running water for herself and her four...
