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Califorinia Groundwater In 2024 | California Program Update

November 20, 2024 | By Clean Water Action California

Welcome to Clean Water Action California’s Program Update! Read all about what we're working on to protect California's groundwater. Thank you for your support of this work and for being part of the solution!

Califronia Program Update - Groundwater 2024

Hot Creek flows through the Long Valley Caldera in a volcanically active region of east-central California.

2024 Groundwater Awareness Week: Celebrating Our Great Hidden Resource

March 15, 2024 | By Jennifer Clary

Groundwater is a huge part of California's climate adaptation plan, as hotter and more extreme weather will make our surface water supplies less reliable. Over the past two decades, a period that experts now consider a mega-drought, groundwater users pumped record amounts of groundwater, resulting in thousands of dry wells and severe land subsidence in areas of the state.

Study Shows Vulnerable CA Communities Left Behind in Groundwater Sustainability Planning

July 19, 2023 | By Ngodoo Atume

For the past three years, Clean Water Action has played a leading role in assessing how groundwater sustainability plans submitted to the state of California are considering and protecting vulnerable communities dependent on groundwater as their source of drinking water. Key findings show that 63% of domestic users across the state are not protected by current sustainability plans.

Map of California Groundwater Sustainability Basins and Stakeholder Engagement

Community Participation in Groundwater Sustainability: The City of Weed

April 23, 2019 | By Nina Foushee

Angelina Cook is an environmental activist based in Siskiyou county. She advocates for including the City of Weed in the Shasta Valley Groundwater Sustainability Plan and working to protect the city’s groundwater from expanded pumping by private bottling companies. Clean Water Action's

Community Participation in Groundwater Sustainability: The Borrego Valley

April 8, 2019 | By Nina Foushee

Imagine over 600,000 acres of wilderness. You are surrounded by blue sky, mountains, rock formations and a cornucopia of plants including creosote, palo verde, cacti, and ocotillo. As you walk around, you have the opportunity to see bighorn sheep, mountain lions, kit foxes, mule deer, coyotes

Community Participation in Groundwater Sustainability: Ventura County

March 18, 2019 | By Nina Foushee

Candice Meneghin serves on the board of the Fillmore and Piru Basins (FPB) Groundwater Sustainability Agency as an environmental representative for the Santa Clara River Environmental Groundwater Committee. She also serves on the board of a local nonprofit, Friends of the Santa Clara River, which