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The Department of Water Resources (DWR) has released the draft California’s Groundwater – Update 2020 (Bulletin-118) and opened the public comment period.
The update contains information on the condition of California’s groundwater and DWR is encouraging community members and water managers over the next 45 days to review the publication and provide input.
This version of California’s Groundwater provides a comprehensive look at statewide groundwater activities, compiling technical information and data from 2003 to 2020. This bulletin recognizes the passage of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act in 2014 and builds a statewide framework to share new information and progress made by locals who are managing groundwater basins across the state. It also highlights emerging topics such as water markets and the impacts of climate change on groundwater and summarizes groundwater information for each of the State’s 10 hydrologic regions.
DWR is also developing a companion to California’s Groundwater, a web-based dashboard leveraging the California Natural Resources Agency Open Data Platform to improve the access and timeliness of statewide groundwater information, making it easily available for water managers and the public to use.
The final version of California’s Groundwater is expected to be released in summer 2021.
A public webinar will be held March 30 at noon. Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register. Public comments can be emailed to [email protected] and will be accepted through April 26, 2021.
