When most think of the possible impacts of sea level rise, they think of coastal flooding and the growing risks...
As groundwater sustainability agencies prepare their plans to meet the requirements of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), they will...
From the Department of Pesticide Regulation: The Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) added 122 new Ground Water Protection Areas (GWPAs) to 15 counties based on groundwater detections of 3CCR 6800(a)-listed pesticides (atrazine, simazine, bromacil, diuron, prometon, bentazon, or norflurazon). DPR...
From the Department of Water Resources: The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) today announced completion of a multi-year process...
Dr. Michael Kiparsky is the founding director of the Wheeler Water Institute within the Center for Law, Energy, and Environment...
DWR’s Taryn Ravazzini updates the Commission on the Department’s activities, including major milestones, 2019 activities, and the Department’s technical and financial assistance In September of 2014, Governor Brown signed a package of legislation known as the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act...
The Nature Conservancy’s Sarah Heard goes through the mechanics of the market, the first to be formed since the passage...
From the Department of Pesticide Regulation: The Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) added 122 new Ground Water Protection Areas (GWPAs)...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Water and oil do mix, or at least they should in order for the San Joaquin Valley to succeed, said Sarge Green, a project director at the Water, Education and Technology (WET) center at Fresno...
David Sandino and Maurice Hall present their big ideas on groundwater management The Groundwater Resources Association of California (GRA) created...
Dr. Douglas Tolley gives an explanatory presentation on integrated hydrologic modeling, including how models are coupled and key terms such...
Effects from the two July 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes were observed in several USGS continuous groundwater-level monitoring sites in California, Nevada, and Arizona. By the USGS The two large Ridgecrest, CA, area earthquakes were felt across much of the state over...
Groundwater managers across the state are looking to groundwater recharge as a potential solution to their community’s water challenges. However,...
Five years ago, California became the last state in the West to regulate groundwater. Many thought this would be impossible...
New Berkeley Lab study uses supercomputers to analyze hydrological changes in a California watershed following a wildfire. By Julie Chao, Berkeley Lab In recent years, wildfires in the western United States have occurred with increasing frequency and scale. Climate change...