Articles on implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), State Water Board intervention, land subsidence, groundwater recharge, contamination, markets, banking and storage.
California’s continued partnership with locals will serve as the key to safeguarding groundwater-reliant communities and infrastructure from land sinking Press...
By Wendy Thomas Russell, Cal State University Long Beach Sea-level rise is easy to picture: flooded roads, eroding bluffs, shrinking beaches. What’s harder to imagine is what happens beneath these scenes, out of sight and after the water recedes. As...
By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water Starting nearly 118 years ago, arsenic-laced groundwater and dry wells all but killed the hopes of California’s only town founded and governed by African Americans, many of them formerly enslaved. On Tuesday, residents of Allensworth...
From the Department of Water Resources: California is taking a new, data-driven approach to capturing floodwaters for groundwater recharge. The Department of Water Resources (DWR), in coordination with GEI Consultants, has released the Central Valley Flood-MAR Dashboard for public testing,...
The Flood-MAR Network’s Estimating Recharge Action Team has created a Groundwater Recharge Estimation factsheet. The factsheet serves to provide landowners...
By Monserrat Solis, SJV Water An agricultural water district that serves mostly Hanford-area farmers is looking for ways to preserve its surface supplies for use on crops first by limiting how much can be recharged into the aquifer. The Kings...
By Monsserat Solis, SJV Water The Mid-Kings River Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) approved a pumping allocation over objections from neighboring agencies and without any indication it will be approved by the state. “I’ve got to make decisions this month, next...
