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The California Department of Water Resources plans to issue new regulations requiring local groundwater sustainability agencies to take immediate actions to prevent more land from sinking due to overdrafting aquifers.

California’s extreme drought ended two years ago but far Northern California remains in the grip of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s emergency drought declaration.

The Legislature has passed a measure to exempt wetlands and disadvantaged communities from groundwater regulations.

The state water board is holding its first hearing next month to determine next steps for the first of several groundwater basins deemed inadequate.