PRESS RELEASE: Safe Yield Trial is a Go: Appellate Court declines to hear IWVGA’s challenge to trial court’s decision to hold safe yield trial Indian Wells Valley Groundwater News November 15, 2024Press release from the Indian Wells Valley Water District and Searles Valley Minerals The Indian Wells Valley Water District and...
SJV WATER: Madera County project aims to curb groundwater pull by paying farmers to find new uses for land SJV Water Groundwater News November 9, 2024By Jesse Vad, SJV Water Residents and advocates in the small community of Fairmead have been working for years to...
SJV WATER: Lawsuit accuses Friant Water Authority of holding secret meetings that resulted in massive fees pinned on a handful of Tulare County irrigation districts SJV Water Groundwater News November 6, 2024By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water The legal fracas over who should pay to fix the sinking Friant-Kern Canal grew Friday...
AG ALERT: Farms face ruin as groundwater law takes its toll Ag Alert Groundwater News October 23, 2024By Caleb Hampton, Ag Alert Last month, on the final day of his almond harvest, Amrik Singh Basra sat outside...
SJV WATER: Kings County groundwater managers ‘flying blind’ with zero input from State Water Board SJV Water Groundwater News October 23, 2024By Lisa McEwen and Monserrat Solis, SJV Water Water managers in Kings County have heard nothing but crickets from state...
NOW AVAILABLE: DWR Releases Webinar on Depletion of Interconnected Surface Water and Extends Paper Comment Period Department of Water Resources (DWR) Groundwater News October 18, 2024From the Department of Water Resources: To help Groundwater Sustainability Agencies address the depletion of interconnected surface water (ISW) in...
SJV WATER: Cataloging San Joaquin Valley water projects is a huge and ever-changing task SJV Water Groundwater News October 17, 2024by Monserrat Solis, California Local News Fellow, SJV Water It seems like an impossible task, cataloging all – or at...
AG ALERT: Land values plunge as groundwater law dims farm prospects Ag Alert AgricultureGroundwater News October 16, 2024By Caleb Hampton The value of farmland in parts of the San Joaquin Valley, California’s agricultural heartland, has fallen rapidly...
SJV WATER: New UC Davis clinic hopes to give small valley farmers some legal fire power to defend their groundwater stake SJV Water Groundwater News October 10, 2024By Hannah Frances Johansson Nicole Larson is afraid for small farmers. Before enrolling as a law student at University of...
SJV WATER: State grilling prompts Tulare County groundwater agency to make changes SJV Water Groundwater News October 8, 2024By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water The Eastern Tule Groundwater Sustainability Agency board took several actions at a recent meeting following...
SJV WATER: Most well owners in Kings County will soon have to meter and register wells under local – not state – rules SJV Water Groundwater News September 25, 2024By Monserrat Solis, SJV Water Most Kings County farmers will begin metering and registering their wells by the end of...
NOW AVAILABLE: DWR Releases Second and Third Papers on Depletions of Interconnected Surface Water Department of Water Resources (DWR) Groundwater News September 21, 2024From the Department of Water Resources: To help Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) address the depletion of interconnected surface water (ISW)...
SJV WATER: Ten years after the law known as SGMA changed California’s water world, what’s next? SJV Water Groundwater News September 20, 2024By Jesse Vad, SJV Water Monday marked the 10-year anniversary of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, (SGMA) which aims to...
PRESS RELEASE: The Science Is In: Far More Water Can be Pumped Annually Than IWVGA Claims Indian Wells Valley Groundwater News September 19, 2024Press release from Indian Wells Valley Water District and Searles Valley Minerals The Indian Wells Valley Water District (District) and...
SJV WATER: State puts second San Joaquin Valley groundwater basin on probation, with two exceptions SJV Water Groundwater News September 18, 2024By Lisa McEwen and Jesse Vad, SJV Water Farmers in southern Tulare County will face greater pumping scrutiny after the...
