Items Tagged with 'ensuring safe and affordable drinking water for vulnerable communities'

Democrats in the Legislature have been advancing three bills proposing to reform the court adjudication process for determining groundwater rights and to limit new agricultural wells.

The Legislature is advancing bills to ensure environmental justice has a seat at the state water board and that the agency is better prepared for drought.

Gov. Newsom issued an executive order aimed at protecting drinking water wells as the drought deepens. But farm and business groups say it weakens a tool growers have long relied on to survive droughts.

A San Joaquin Valley lawmaker has been hoping to modernize water management in California by dissolving the state water board.

California's top priority for water and climate change is to head off the surge of groundwater pumping that has resulted from the drought, according to a new PPIC report.