Articles on implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), State Water Board intervention, land subsidence, groundwater recharge, contamination, markets, banking and storage.
From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) has released the final version of California’s Groundwater: Bulletin 118 – Update 2025, the State’s official and most comprehensive report of groundwater monitoring, conditions, and management across California....
The 2025 Multibenefit Land Repurposing Program (MLRP) Annual Report is now available, detailing program progress and regional activities. Prepared by...
In December 2025, the Groundwater Resources Association of California hosted a two-day webinar to address the complex relationship between Interconnected...
By SJV Water The Delta-Mendota subbasin, one of the largest in California, will likely avoid state enforcement. Staff from the state Water Resources Control Board issued an assessment March 2 that recommends the basin, which stretches over 765,000 acres across...
Press release from the State Water Resources Control Board State Water Resources Control Board staff today released a Staff Assessment of the Delta-Mendota Subbasin recommending that the State Water Board return the subbasin to the Department of Water Resources’ (DWR)...
How do SGMA’s “sustainable yield” and the long-established legal concept of “safe yield” align—or differ—in practice? In a January webinar presented by the Groundwater Resources Association, panelists Stephanie Hastings of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, Eric Garner of Best Best and...
By Monserrat Solis, SJV Water Keeping on the state’s good side was paramount in the decision by a southwestern Kings County groundwater agency to cut pumping allocations to less than one acre foot per acre of land. The new allocation...
