Articles on implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), State Water Board intervention, land subsidence, groundwater recharge, contamination, markets, banking and storage.
By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water He’s either simply telling it like it is, or, he’s a sanctimonious know-it-all stirring the pot. Either way, Eric R. Quinley has emerged as, quite possibly, the most hated man in the Tule subbasin despite...
Assessment released today describes substantial progress made in sustainability plans. From the State Water Resources Control Board: State Water Resources...
From the Department of Water Resources: Monitoring the sinking of land surface in California, called subsidence, requires immense amounts of data to track changes in surface levels over multi-year periods. Thanks to a new satellite launched by NASA and the...
By Monserrat Solis, SJV Water As groundwater agencies limit pumping, sometimes in different amounts and ways, farmers with land across boundaries are trying to figure how to operate. Lakeside Irrigation District Board member and farmer Ralph Alcala brought up a...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water A pair of bills that arose out of the ongoing fight over groundwater in eastern Kern County’s desert have come to very different conclusions – one awaiting the Governor’s signature and the other tabled indefinitely....
Flood-MAR is a water resource management strategy that uses high flows resulting from, or in anticipation of, rainfall or snowmelt for managed aquifer recharge (MAR). Flood-MAR occurs on agricultural lands, working landscapes, and managed natural lands, including refuges, floodplains, and...
