Download or read book An Evaluation of California Groundwater Management Planning written by California Water Foundation and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book California Groundwater Management written by Steven B. Bachman and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Review of Hydrologic Information for Adequacy in Developing a Water Management Plan in the Owens Valley Southern California written by W. F. Hardt and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book California Water Plan Update 2003 written by California. Department of Water Resources and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book California Water Plan Highlights written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Uncommon Innovation written by Rebecca Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book California Water Plan Update written by California. Department of Water Resources and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Workplan Water Quality Management Planning Nondesignated Area of California written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Final Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Comprehensive Groundwater Protection Evaluation for the South San Francisco Bay Basins written by California Regional Water Quality Control Board--San Francisco Bay Region. Groundwater Committee and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book California s Water Future written by CALFED Bay-Delta Program and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book California Water Plan Update 2005 Public Review Draft written by California. Department of Water Resources and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Institutional Arrangements for Conjunctive Water Management in California and Analysis of Legal Reform Alternatives written by Ella Foley-Gannon and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book California s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act written by Tyler Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike most states west of the 100th meridian, California has, until recently, never enacted a comprehensive set of regulations to govern consumptive use of groundwater resources, even though groundwater provides between 40 percent and 60 percent of the water used by residents, farmers, business, and municipalities in the state. That changed in 2014, when the California legislature passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) in response to one of the worst droughts in the state's history. The years between 2012 and 2014 had been so dry that surface water deliveries to the major agricultural areas of the San Joaquin Valley were cut to almost zero, forcing farmers to pump groundwater at unprecedented rates to make up the shortfall. This, in turn, caused groundwater levels to drop and domestic wells to go dry. SGMA was enacted to reverse this trend and bring the state's groundwater resources into sustainability.This thesis examines whether a key feature of SGMA - its focus on local control of groundwater management decisions - will frustrate the sustainability goals of the statute. By reviewing a representative sample of the Groundwater Sustainability Plans prepared in compliance with SGMA, the thesis analyzes how the local water agencies in the San Joaquin Valley differ in their approach to groundwater management when compared to local water agencies outside the San Joaquin Valley. This analysis indicates that much of the groundwater overdraft problem in California can be traced to a recent phenomenon where large farming interests in the San Joaquin Valley switched from annual row crops to permanent orchard crops, primarily almonds and pistachios. This change in crop mix has fundamentally altered water usage in the Valley, largely because almonds and pistachios require substantially more water than annual row crops.Almonds and pistachios, however, are highly profitable, and the farmers who switched to these crops show no interest in converting back to row crops just to save water or improve conditions within their respective subbasin. For this reason, the Groundwater Sustainability Plans prepared by water agencies in the San Joaquin Valley focus almost exclusively on new water supply projects and include few provisions that would address pumping behavior or crop mix. Outside the San Joaquin Valley, however, the water agencies seem more willing to embrace a wide array of actions to achieve sustainability, including pumping restrictions and land fallowing programs. Thus, SGMA appears to create a two-tiered system, one in which San Joaquin Valley farmers can continue to pump as before, while the rest of the overdrafted basins in the state engage in aggressive cutbacks. Without greater guidance and enforcement from the State Water Resources Board and the Department of Water Resources, this two-tiered system may cause SGMA to fail in its objective, which is to bring all overdrafted subbasins, including those in the San Joaquin Valley, into a sustainable condition.

Download or read book Water Action Plan written by California. Department of Water Resources and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book California Water Plan Update written by California. Department of Water Resources and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Groundwater Law Conference June 1 2007 San Francisco CA written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: