Choosing the Right Management Action The Role of Monitoring Networks and Economics

Leading the (Re)Charge. From the Local Government Commission.

A look at collaborative approaches that can make it easier to enact the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act while protecting vulnerable communities and ecosystems.

The PPIC Water Policy Center reviewed 36 groundwater plans for 11 critically overdrafted basins in the San Joaquin Valley and the plans’ proposals to end overdraft and mitigate its undesirable effects. PPIC research associate Jelena Jezdimirovic presents these findings, and center director Ellen Hanak and Jelena Jezdimirovic discuss key takeaways and next steps in the groundwater management effort.