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The $10 billion measure would allocate nearly $4 billion to various water issues and $300 million to programs promoting sustainability practices and helping farmers and ranchers to build climate resilience.

One of the California’s top water regulators fielded questions recently over a slew of local agencies facing repercussions for their inadequate groundwater plans and for a patchwork of new fertilizer regulations hitting farmers across the state.

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.

Lawmakers are casting a critical eye to the implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, with calls for elevating environmental justice within the process and establishing a stronger state role.

Lawmakers have until Jan. 19 to curry more votes or amend their bills to ease opposition to get them out of committee.

The drinking water for millions of Californians and most of the state’s irrigated farmland can be cut off for years by one earthquake.

Tulare Lake groundwater sustainability agencies have six months to iron out a new SGMA plan. A new report shows the basin is still in decline, despite a wet winter.

The Legislature has advanced measures to overhaul aspects of the water right system to address climate change. But critics worry about climate investments and disrupt progress in water negotiations.

An Assembly committee has approved a bill to add more regulatory review for new groundwater wells, along with two others on adjudications.