Articles on implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), State Water Board intervention, land subsidence, groundwater recharge, contamination, markets, banking and storage.
By Dennis Pollock It has become a well-worn cliché in the world of irrigation: “If you want to manage water, you have to measure water.” Bill Green knows the expression well, as both an agriculture specialist at the Center for...
State officials warn some of the state’s most powerful and largest agricultural districts that their plans fail to address how over-pumping could harm local communities’ drinking water supplies. By Rachel Becker, Courthouse News Service The state’s water agency today lambasted...
From the Department of Water Resources: The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) today released its second round of assessments of groundwater sustainability plans developed...
By Jay Ziegler, director of policy for The Nature Conservancy, and Dan Vink, principal partner for Six-33 Solutions, for Ag Alert We are all celebrating a rare atmospheric river storm event that recently hit a temporary pause button on California’s...
For the past several months, the California Water Commission has been leading a process to frame state considerations around how Groundwater Sustainability Agencies might construct well-managed groundwater trading programs. The Commission has been hearing from experts and the public at...
By Christine Souza, Ag Alert State agencies and interest groups are working to develop a voluntary groundwater trading program as a tool to aid water managers and farmers. The effort seeks to protect aquifers under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act...
