Environmental
Sep. 23, 2014
In response to drought, California takes historic step to regulate groundwater
Local agencies must ensure the state's aquifers are not depleted but implementation of the historic law will not be easy, lawyers say.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The crisis spawned by California's now three-year drought has led state leaders to pass a law thought politically impossible even just a few years ago - a statewide scheme imposing controls on groundwater pumping.
Gov. Jerry Brown, who tried and failed to address the problem of rampant groundwater extraction during the last drought in the 1970s, signed the historic legislation into law last week. ...
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