Articles on implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), State Water Board intervention, land subsidence, groundwater recharge, contamination, markets, banking and storage.
Notice from the State Water Board: The State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board or Board) designated the Tulare Lake Subbasin as probationary under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) on April 16, 2024. The Board designated the Tule...
Board approved nine local agency permits before this week’s storms From the State Water Board: Just before storms began drenching parts of California this week, the State Water Resources Control Board issued the last of nine groundwater recharge permits for...
From the State Water Board: Understanding, managing, and regulating nonpoint source pollution of groundwater is a challenge for California. Nonpoint sources of groundwater pollution encompass tens to hundreds of thousands of individually managed plots, fields, and other land parcels, covering...
By Monserrat Solis, SJV Water It’s been a busy start to the year for the Southwest Kings Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA), which instituted new well registration and reporting policies over two Fridays after not meeting for six months. A third...
Combining direct measurements with artificial intelligence methods, a new map estimates groundwater depth across the contiguous United States at a resolution of around 30 meters. Credit: Ma et al., 2026, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-03094-3, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Researchers used 1 million data points...
