Articles on implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), State Water Board intervention, land subsidence, groundwater recharge, contamination, markets, banking and storage.
On February 1st, 2022 Maven’s Notebook, the Groundwater Exchange, and the Local Government Commission hosted a webinar entitled: How do you run a Groundwater Sustainability Agency ?– A Review of Choices made by Critically Overdrafted Subbasins. Laura Ramos and Sarge...
From the Department of Water Resources: Today, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) released eight determinations on groundwater sustainability...
From the Department of Water Resources: Today, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) released four determinations on groundwater sustainability...
From the Department of Water Resources: Today, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) released two additional determinations on groundwater sustainability plans developed by local agencies to meet the requirements of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). DWR has...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Though the state’s first informal assessment of four San Joaquin Valley groundwater plans noted several — sometimes significant — deficiencies in those plans, groundwater managers were confident they could bring the plans up to snuff....
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...
