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[4] [11] The California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014 was the first to specify how to manage groundwater in a way that would not harm or endanger future access to clean groundwater. [2] Before this act, no regulations governed groundwater management other than the federal Safe Drinking Water Act and Clean Water Act. These acts ...
The Porter-Cologne Act (California Water Code, Section 7) was created in 1969 and is the law that governs water quality regulation in California. The legislation bears the names of legislators Carley V. Porter and Gordon Cologne. [1] It was established to be a program to protect water quality as well as beneficial uses of water.
California has had a long history of complex water rights dealing with the ownership and management of surface water. Groundwater has stayed under the regulation radar, which led to the overdraft of vital basins and the subsidence of land taking place throughout the Central Valley. The SGMA gives responsibility to both state authority and local ...
Excessive groundwater pumping has long been depleting aquifers in California's Central Valley. Now, scientists say the depletion is accelerating. 'Full-on crisis': Groundwater in California's ...
California created an orchard for the world in large part by tapping into prehistoric aquifers that underlay the Central Valley. Much of that water is now gone , never to fully return.
As streams have dried up, farmers have turned to groundwater, [32] but this quickly depleted the aquifers that supply the city of Fresno, to the point where the land began to sag. [33] In the 80 years that the city of Fresno has used groundwater as a water source, the water level has dropped from 30 feet below the surface to 128 feet in 2009.
To meet the lofty goals of California’s 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, the authors estimated that users statewide will need to reduce groundwater pumping by about 19.2 percent by ...
The aim is to reduce the pumping of ground water that has a growing salinity problem, reduce evaporation, cut the use of energy and air pollution, while giving farmers the ability to precisely apply water and nutrients through pressurized drip irrigation systems. [1]