Articles on implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), State Water Board intervention, land subsidence, groundwater recharge, contamination, markets, banking and storage.
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...
Communities, largely home to low-income Latino residents, still have dry wells. Restoring groundwater takes decades, with costly, long-term replenishment projects — and ultimately, much less pumping. By Alastair Bland, Cal Matters The powerful storms that clobbered California for weeks in...
Sustainable Conservation’s CEO Ashley Boren and Director of Resource Stewardship Dr. Daniel Mountjoy discuss what all of our recent storms mean for groundwater recharge in 2023 and beyond, and how we can better prepare for future wet and dry times...
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...
