STATE WATER BOARD: Petition approved to capture flood flows, recharge groundwater State Water Board Groundwater News March 8, 2023State Water Board approves federal request to divert more than 600,000 acre-feet of water for wildlife refuges, underground storage, and...
AG ALERT: Farmers race to sink water into ground after storms Ag Alert AgricultureGroundwater News February 22, 2023By Lisa McEwen Growers in the San Joaquin Valley are hurriedly building temporary groundwater sinking basins to take advantage of...
COMMENTARY: California must capture water in wet years and expedite projects Ag Alert CommentaryGroundwater News February 1, 2023Jamie Johansson, California Farm Bureau Federation Now that the recent series of Pacific storms have abated and we are in...
DWR NEWS: Groundwater Recharge – Capturing Water from Storms to Replenish Stressed Groundwater Basins Department of Water Resources (DWR) Groundwater News January 18, 2023By DWR News The wet winter storms in January 2023 have brought a lot of water that has the potential...
STATE WATER BOARD: Board issues first five-year temporary groundwater recharge permit State Water Board Groundwater News January 13, 2023Streamlined permitting helps capture stormwater in Sacramento, Merced counties Press release from the State Water Resources Control Board: Furthering state...
THE CONVERSATION: How California could save up its rain to ease future droughts — instead of watching epic atmospheric river rainfall drain into the Pacific The Conversation Groundwater NewsWater supply augmentation January 6, 2023By Andrew Fisher, University of California, Santa Cruz California has seen so much rain over the past few weeks that...
KAMYAR GUIVETCHI: Managing Water Resources for Sustainability & Resilience Maven Best of the NotebookClimate changeNotebook News and FeaturesPlanning and management November 30, 2022Kamyar Guivetchi is the Manager of DWR’s Division of Planning, where he works with staff, numerous government agencies, California Native...
DWR NEWS: Going with the Flow: How Aquifer Recharge Reduces Flood Risk Department of Water Resources (DWR) Groundwater News August 3, 2022By DWR News On a small scale, aquifers — subsurface natural basins — have benefitted from man-made recharge for decades....
AG ALERT: On-farm recharge pioneer invested in water savings Ag Alert Groundwater News June 22, 2022By Lisa McEwen, Ag Alert Don Cameron sparked curiosity in 2010 when he began a multi-phase project intended to capture...
AG ALERT: Water storage, recharge focus of Sonoma summit Ag Alert AgricultureGroundwater News May 18, 2022By Kevin Hecteman, Ag Alert In recognition of the ongoing drought and weather extremes, the Sonoma County Farm Bureau took...
COMMENTARY: Despite heavy snow, we must seek a new water path Ag Alert CommentaryPlanning and management January 5, 2022By Justin Fredrickson, Ag Alert California is facing an indisputable fact: We need, in a big way, to get busy...
AG ALERT: Alfalfa has ‘high flexibility’ for droughts and floods Ag Alert Agriculture November 24, 2021By Bob Johnson Alfalfa’s water resiliency may become even more important, with the changing climate expected to produce more extreme...
AG ALERT: New groundwater recharge efforts aimed at alfalfa crop Ag Alert Agriculture October 23, 2021By Dennis Pollock, Ag Alert Efforts have been made by nut-crop growers to recharge their underground water supplies by capturing...
AG ALERT: Research seeks resilience for aquifers Ag Alert AgricultureGroundwater News October 13, 2021By Bob Johnson, Ag Alert One day in early October, a group of University of California, Merced, students went to...
KERN COUNTY WATER SUMMIT: Two perspectives on the State Water Board report, Recommendations for an Effective Water Rights Response to Climate Change Maven Best of the NotebookClimate changeNotebook News and FeaturesWater rights and water law June 2, 2021State Water Board’s Erik Ekdahl discusses the climate change report; Attorney Valerie Kincaid explains why existing water right holders are...
