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 Kings County growers are organizing to stop a set of groundwater and land fees they say will wipe out small farmers, even as the drumbeat of a looming state takeover grows louder. Managers of the...
From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today released its Resource Guide for Funding Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) Implementation. The purpose of this high-level funding resource guide is to provide Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) with information that will support...
In 2017, a nationwide assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey found that brackish groundwater in the nation’s aquifers is more than 800 times the amount currently used yearly. California’s Coastal Basin and Central Valley aquifers contain close to 7 billion...
Groundwater depletion causing dry well impacts and subsidence that threatens critical infrastructure, including the Friant-Kern Canal From the State Water Board: To protect communities that rely on crucial groundwater resources, and in keeping with its authority under the landmark Sustainable...
State-of-the-art helicopter-based technology and local coordination improve management of our underground water supply From the Department of Water Resources: National...
By Lois Henry and Lisa McEwen, SJV Water Fallout over the ever sinking Friant-Kern Canal could affect growers throughout the Tule subbasin regardless of whether they get water from the canal. The State Water Resources Control Board already has the...
