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Newsom administration's bid to limit groundwater wells gets voted down

06/13/24 10:32 AM By Brad Hooker
KEYWORDS corporate agribusinesses over pump aquifers industry opposition to California environmental regulations protecting domestic wells from groundwater pumping safe and affordable drinking water in socially disadvantaged communities
The Department of Water Resources took an unusual step for an agency in publicly backing a measure to limit new groundwater wells. The bill was an attempt to fix several problems in Newsom’s drought order in 2022, which unsuccessfully sought to protect drinking water wells.
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Brad Hooker
Sacramento Bureau Chief, Agri-Pulse West

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