The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act has laid the groundwork for transforming California’s rural economy, but the scale of necessary change remains largely unaddressed.
With the passage of SGMA, California aimed to balance the extraction of groundwater with natural replenishment, critical for sustaining agricultural and rural community needs.
A decade later, groundwater exhaustion demands significant cuts, potentially requiring the fallowing of 900,000 acres in the San Joaquin Valley alone, indicating a desperate need for action.
SGMA, while a landmark environmental law, remains mostly unnoticed by Californians, despite its vital role in ensuring water sustainability for the future.
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