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Lawmakers are casting a critical eye to the implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, with calls for elevating environmental justice within the process and establishing a stronger state role.

Lawmakers have until Jan. 19 to curry more votes or amend their bills to ease opposition to get them out of committee.

The drinking water for millions of Californians and most of the state’s irrigated farmland can be cut off for years by one earthquake.

Tulare Lake groundwater sustainability agencies have six months to iron out a new SGMA plan. A new report shows the basin is still in decline, despite a wet winter.

The Legislature has advanced measures to overhaul aspects of the water right system to address climate change. But critics worry about climate investments and disrupt progress in water negotiations.

An Assembly committee has approved a bill to add more regulatory review for new groundwater wells, along with two others on adjudications.

Lawmaker have filed the most in more than a decade, raising the potential for the Legislature to deliver new challenges for farmers already dealing with water shortages, high taxes and exorbitant labor costs.

The advocacy group has fended off two bills and an executive order from Gov. Gavin Newsom and is expecting more of the same for 2023.