Sustainable Groundwater Management Act

THIS JUST IN … DWR Completes Prioritization of Groundwater Basins Under SGMA

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

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December 18, 2019

From the Department of Water Resources: The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) today announced completion of a multi-year process...

DR. MICHAEL KIPARSKY: Can Recharge Net Metering contribute to sustainable groundwater management?

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December 11, 2019

Dr. Michael Kiparsky is the founding director of the Wheeler Water Institute within the Center for Law, Energy, and Environment...

CA WATER COMMISSION: An update on implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (or SGMA)

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November 26, 2019

DWR’s Taryn Ravazzini updates the Commission on the Department’s activities, including major milestones, 2019 activities, and the Department’s technical and...

GROUNDWATER MARKETS: A case study of the Fox Canyon Groundwater Market

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November 20, 2019

The Nature Conservancy’s Sarah Heard goes through the mechanics of the market, the first to be formed since the passage...

SJV WATER: Our “valley of tribes” must work together on water issues

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November 14, 2019

By Lois Henry, SJV Water Water and oil do mix, or at least they should in order for the San...

GROUNDWATER TWO-FOR: The disconnect between groundwater legal systems and groundwater hydrology; Proactively managing groundwater to sustain communities and nature in an uncertain future

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November 6, 2019

David Sandino and Maurice Hall present their big ideas on groundwater management The Groundwater Resources Association of California (GRA) created...

FEATURE: Integrated Hydrologic Model Development and Evaluation for Non-Modelers

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October 23, 2019

Dr. Douglas Tolley gives an explanatory presentation on integrated hydrologic modeling, including how models are coupled and key terms such...

GROUNDWATER RECHARGE: Balancing our depleted groundwater supplies and ecosystem needs

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October 10, 2019

Groundwater managers across the state are looking to groundwater recharge as a potential solution to their community’s water challenges. However,...

COMMENTARY AT CAL MATTERS: California must embrace groundwater management, and expand it

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September 27, 2019

Five years ago, California became the last state in the West to regulate groundwater. Many thought this would be impossible...

CA WATER LAW SYMPOSIUM: An overview of California water rights

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August 28, 2019

California water law is complex, governed by both state and federal law, part property law and part environmental law. Adding...

THIS JUST IN … DWR Approves Nine Alternatives to Groundwater Sustainability Plans

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July 17, 2019

From the Department of Water Resources: The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) today announced approval of nine alternatives to...

GSA SUMMIT: SGMA and Land Use Issues

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July 10, 2019

Panel discusses land use issues, including well permitting, land fallowing, general plans and SGMA, and more … Groundwater is intimately...

CA WATER LAW SYMPOSIUM: Questions of common supply: SGMA requirements for interconnected surface water and groundwater

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June 19, 2019

The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), passed in 2014, is California’s first statewide law that explicitly reflects the fact that...

SGMA IMPLEMENTATION: Groundwater sustainability goals and challenges

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June 5, 2019

Groundwater managers working in four critically-overdrafted basins discuss how their planning efforts are going In basins all over California, groundwater...

ELLEN HANAK: Water and the Future of the San Joaquin Valley

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May 29, 2019

Ellen Hanak delivers four priorities for managing the implementation of SGMA in the San Joaquin Valley The San Joaquin Valley...