Get all the news you need in your ... operational or hydrologic condition and to use all our water supplies as efficiently as possible. The Groundwater Management Act of 1980 has been hailed ...

The overall goal is to reduce groundwater overdraft, a condition in which more water is drawn from a well or aquifer than is being replaced.

Faced with the deepening scars of groundwater exhaustion, lawmakers passed SGMA — a sweeping road map to get the state to the ...