More state and local attention to financing can advance sustainable groundwater management
Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy 2025-04-11
Summary:
In 2014, California passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), a law that establishes a statewide framework for advancing the long-term availability of the state’s groundwater resources. SGMA’s framework provides local government with relative flexibility to manage its groundwater resources, but gives state agencies oversight authority and the right to intervene. SGMA requires local Groundwater …