Articles on implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), State Water Board intervention, land subsidence, groundwater recharge, contamination, markets, banking and storage.
By Monserrat Solis, SJV Water Arguments over a preliminary injunction that has held off state groundwater sanctions in Kings County since last year are set to be heard before the Fifth District Court of Appeal in Fresno Oct. 7. The...
By Lisa McEwen & Monserrat Solis Ferocious overpumping that has caused huge swaths of the San Joaquin Valley to sink, damaging key water arteries including the Friant-Kern Canal and California Aqueduct must stop, according to the Department of Water Resources...
Madera County and the San Joaquin Valley serve as a case study of how to implement a more holistic water and land use strategy From the Environmental Defense Fund: A new peer-reviewed article in Frontiers in Water outlines how multibenefit land...
By Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization and winner of multiple Pulitzer prizes, recently published a report “The Drying Planet.” They report that “Moisture lost to evaporation and...
By David Saint-Amand, board president of the Indian Wells Valley Water District This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Re: “How deep-pocketed groundwater users are stalling California’s sustainability plans” Assembly Bill 1413 seeks to quietly...
