…County. The NRCS approved plan will evaluate surface and groundwater resources and develop alternatives for any identified resource concerns. Funding for the project is being provided through NRCS’s Watershed Protection…
Water Works: Diverse Support of Proposition 3 Water Bond
…habitat, water facility upgrades, groundwater, and flood protection. The water bond would use $3.03 billion for safe drinking water and improving water quality. Watershed and fishery improvement projects would receive…
Water Works: Getting Involved with Your GSA
In today’s Water Works, brought to you by AquiMax, communities throughout California are in the midst of developing sustainability plans through local Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSA) as part of the…
Latest Climate Change Assessment Illustrates Farming Challenges of the Future
…impact on irrigated areas, cropping patterns and overall gross revenues. The report highlights the importance of protecting groundwater reserves in order to avoid large economic losses in the agriculture sector….
Citrus Study Says Regulation Costs to Increase
…each basin’s groundwater sustainability plans have been finalized,” he states. “Without new surface water supplies, it seems inevitable that some farmland that currently relies on groundwater will need to be…
Capitol Water Rally ‘Worth Your Fight’
…percent of unimpaired flows in the Tuolumne, Stanislaus and Merced rivers is especially troubling with the ag industry also preparing for the constraints of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. “When…
Water Works: Deficit Irrigation in Processing Tomatoes
…the crop it can help reduce some of the costs of groundwater pumping as well as cutting some of the costs related to transport. Listen to the report below….
Water Works: Funding Approved for Water Storage Projects
…be using the approved $207 million in conditional funding for the Chino Basin Conjunctive Use Program. The groundwater storage bank in San Bernardino County will provide up to 15,000 acre-feet…
Water Recycling Projects Continue Improving Agricultural Water Supplies
…it will be able to process nearly 1.6 billion gallons a year. The $14.4 million dollar plant will provide treated water to help supplement the agricultural industry’s reliance on groundwater…
Water Works: Distressing News for San Joaquin River Water Users
…also struggling with the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, which is kind of really restricting their ability to pump groundwater at the same time,” Scheuring noted. Listen to the report….
New Test Can Determine Nitrogen Levels in Soil
…Too much nitrogen can run off with rainwater or leach through to soil and contaminate groundwater. Now, a simple, rapid and reliable test can determine the nitrogen amount in soil….
Water Works: More Wine Country Basins May Soon Come Under SGMA Rules
…previously believed. The California Department of Water Resources recently declared that 14 groundwater basins throughout the state should be reprioritized under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) and four of…
Water Officials Call for More Water to Restore Salmon Migration
…wrestling with the requirements of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. “Our farmers are being hit from the front and from behind at the same time. Surface water and groundwater supplies…
Fresno State Awarded Irrigation Innovation Grant
…concept, prototype development and value engineering.” Zoldoske said the research and new development will be beneficial for California growers come 2020 when the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, SGMA comes into…