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Governor Gavin Newsom's recent executive order may make drilling new wells for agricultural uses more difficult. Local groundwater sustainability agencies would have to determine if future drillings will affect sustainability goals.
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Free water deliveries have started for some San Joaquin Valley residents with nitrate contaminated wells. But advocates worry outreach has been lacking and not enough wells have been tested.
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Managers for all the deficient subbasins will now have six months to address plan deficiencies as outlined by the state and resubmit them to DWR for another review. If the plans are rejected at that time, the state Water Resources Control Board could take over the subbasins and manage groundwater directly, or take other, more punitive actions.
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Water Board hearings on the Kern River are wrongly shutting out public interests and need to change focus, according to a Bakersfield advocacy group.
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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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A large water pipeline being built near Lemoore in Kings County is raising eyebrows as much for its possible uses as for the name associated with its construction — John Vidovich.
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