Articles on implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), State Water Board intervention, land subsidence, groundwater recharge, contamination, markets, banking and storage.
Scientists tap PNNL’s rare ability to measure argon-39 for new insights into groundwater Stacie Jones, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Scientists...
At the Kern County Water Summit held last week, hosted by the Water Association of Kern County, Acting Deputy Director of the Department of Water Resources Statewide Groundwater Management Program Steven Springhorn provided an update on the Department’s progress on...
From the California Farm Bureau Federation: Using farmland for wintertime aquifer recharge could help nearby communities replenish their groundwater supplies, according to University of California research showing that nearly 300 rural communities could benefit. The research is part of ongoing...
Californians face another of its periodic droughts and also long-term questions about the supply and uses of water. By Dan Walters, Cal Matters By the time this column is published, Northern California may be receiving some much-needed rain, and possibly...
The Department of Water Resources should enhance groundwater protection with changes to California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. By Jeanette Howard,...
Last year was a milestone year for SGMA, with the critically-overdrafted basins required to submit their first groundwater sustainability plans to DWR by January 31st of 2020. The Department is currently reviewing these groundwater sustainability plans and will release assessments...
By: Heard, S, M Fienup, and E Remson. 2021. “The First SGMA Groundwater Market Is Trading: The Importance of Good Design and the Risks of Getting It Wrong.” California Agriculture 75 (2): 50–56. https://doi.org/10.3733/ca.2021a0010. A groundwater market, which caps total...
