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, Ag Alert Don Cameron sparked curiosity in 2010 when he began a multi-phase project intended to capture floodwater from the Kings River during rainy seasons. The effort, supported by state grants, unfolded as a grand experiment, as...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] In January of 2022, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) released their assessments of the groundwater sustainability plans for the critically overdrafted groundwater basins, approving eight of them and determining twelve to be incomplete. Those basins have until July...
By Danny Merkley, California Farm Bureau Federation California’s farmers and ranchers are under enormous stress entering a third year of unrelenting drought. Family farms and ranches have seen their access to surface water severely curtailed. There isn’t enough water for...
Guest commentary by Ruth Martinez (Ducor Water Board Member) and Roger Dickinson (Co-author of SGMA) The California town of Ducor, with a population of just over 600 residents, is located 35 miles north of Bakersfield. For many years, Ducor’s residents,...
By NASA/JPL Researchers have untangled puzzling patterns of sinking and rising land to pin down the underground locations where water is being pumped for irrigation. Scientists have produced a new method that holds the promise of improving groundwater management –...
