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Lawmakers hope to accelerate SGMA, but face 100 years of entwined water law

02/23/22 8:22 AM By Brad Hooker
KEYWORDS California agriculture climate change worsens droughts in the West drought impacts to domestic drinking water wells fallowed farmland from drought and SGMA illegal cannabis grows steal water land retirement overpumping groundwater aquifers regulatory cost of compliance SGMA
State lawmakers concerned about domestic wells going dry are looking for policies to give more regulatory teeth to the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.
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Brad Hooker
Sacramento Bureau Chief, Agri-Pulse West

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