GUEST COMMENTARY: Groundwater beneath Sacramento Valley offers hope in dry times Sacramento Regional Water Authority Commentary August 9, 2022Commentary by Jim Peifer, Executive Director of the Regional Water Authority, and David Guy, President of the Northern California Water...
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...
Office Hours: Proactive groundwater management strategies with Maurice Hall Maven Webinars April 6, 2022Maurice Hall leads EDF’s Water Program, focusing on developing collaborative water management approaches to meet ecosystem needs alongside the needs...
FEATURE: Legal aspects of groundwater recharge: Do we need a groundwater recharge ethic? Maven Best of the NotebookClimate changeGroundwater NewsNotebook News and Features March 24, 2022Groundwater is one of the world’s most important natural resources,but groundwater management has traditionally been governed by lax and uneven...
SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION: Protecting Water Quality While Recharging Aquifers Maven Best of the NotebookGroundwater NewsNotebook News and FeaturesWater quality February 10, 2022Over 600,000 Californians rely on nitrate-contaminated public supply wells for their household water needs. However, those numbers are even greater...
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: Cover crops can capture water, recharge aquifers Ag Alert AgricultureGroundwater News December 8, 2021By Dennis Pollock, Ag Alert When a rare heavy rain used to fall on Jim Chew’s Madera County farm, the...
AG ALERT: Measuring the future for aquifers Ag Alert Groundwater News November 24, 2021By Dennis Pollock, Ag Alert It has become a well-worn cliché in the world of irrigation: “If you want to...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: Rush is on to drought-proof California’s archaic water system Courthouse News Service Planning and management November 20, 2021Suddenly flush with cash, drought-riddled California has a golden opportunity to update its 20th century water infrastructure and retrofit it...
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...
NEPA DOCS: Sacramento Regional County Sanitation Districts Harvest Water Program Environmental Assessment Bureau of Reclamation News ANNOUNCEMENTS September 15, 2021From the Bureau of Reclamation: Reclamation proposes to provide partial funding through a Title XVI/WIIN grant to the Sacramento Regional...
WEBINAR: Managing California’s Groundwater: Incorporating Climate Change and Multi-Benefit Projects Maven Groundwater NewsWebinars July 13, 2021Local Government Commission and the Groundwater Exchange held a three-part webinar series to share key learnings from the Groundwater Leadership...
