Items Tagged with 'critically overdrafted groundwater basins in the San Joaquin Valley'

DWR is sponsoring a bill to fix Gov. Newsom’s executive order on protect drinking water wells and has teamed up with one of the Capitol’s most aggressive lawmakers for reforming state water laws.

Asm. Esmeralda Soria of Fresno has filed a measure to streamline environmental permitting for flood-managed aquifer recharge, or Flood-MAR.

The GSAs are in place, the plans drafted and the first steps of implementation are happening—the start of a tough road ahead for agriculture.

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.