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While California’s landmark Sustainable Groundwater Management Act promised comprehensive protection of the state’s groundwater, significant gaps remain in its coverage.
Naming priorities such as better land management, an evolved portfolio of 21st-century solutions and more funding for research and development, Stanford experts highlight areas central to success as the Biden-Harris administration aims its sights on safeguarding U.S. drinking water.
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March 29, 2021
In 2014, California took a major step toward sustainable groundwater with the passage of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. While a positive step forward in many respects, under SGMA implementation three major gaps in California’s regulation of groundwater pumping remain: brackish groundwater, non-alluvial groundwater basins and basins ranked by the state as lower priority. These gaps can cause serious harm to communities and ecosystems, and therefore must be addressed if California truly wishes to manage its groundwater sustainably.
March 08, 2021
Proposed laws could reduce conflict and costs to transfer
water rights to new uses, enabling more adaptive and efficient
water markets.
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Evaluating the Use of Data Platforms for Water Management Decisions
There has been increasing recognition that the fragmentation of water and ecological data across California hinders effective and timely water management decisions. To help remedy this issue, developers are building water data platforms to pull together the data relevant to the decision-making process. Researchers at Water in the West analyzed development and implementation of 12 existing water data platforms to determine factors contributing to their success, and make a series of recommendations to help future development of water data platforms.
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