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There’s no end in sight for California’s prolonged three-year drought. With fewer agricultural jobs available in the San Joaquin Valley, will farmworkers decide to search for new opportunities outside the region?
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Since Gov. Newsom's emergency drought order on March 28, Kern County hasn’t issued a single agricultural well permit. Frustration in the ag community is at a boiling point.
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Looking at water levels near Hanford in Kings County, researchers determined land will continue sinking for centuries unless groundwater is replenished in those areas.
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The Kings River East Groundwater Sustainability Agency covers eastern Fresno County and a chunk of northern Tulare County. Its board of directors approved a letter disavowing ag's responsibility to raise groundwater levels enough to protect all domestic wells.
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The new proposed funding comes at a critical time as groundwater restrictions take effect and drought grips the state for a third year in a row.
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The research paper advised that more robust financial planning at the start of major multi-agency water infrastructure projects can help ensure that all partners share the resulting water and financial outcomes.
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Groundwater limits and fees netted $11 million in 2021 from Tulare Co. farmers. Most of that money will pay a share to fix the sagging Friant-Kern Canal. The rest will pay for projects to stem the groundwater free fall that sank the canal in the first place.
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They’re optimistic that increasing agriculture's resilience to a changing climate can also improve its relationship with the environment.
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Pumping caps have been, or soon will be, implemented in all three groundwater sustainability agencies in the Kaweah subbasin.
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Sinking land has become a sticking point as local agencies seek to advance under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act