 SGMA Workshops:
Data for Sustainable Groundwater
Water in the West has launched a new series of modeling and data workshops to help water resource managers comply with California’s historic groundwater management law. Passed in 2014, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) requires the state’s fragmented local groundwater management agencies – more than 2,300 of them – to form “Groundwater Sustainability Agencies,” (GSAs) and to coordinate the activities of these agencies across designated groundwater basins. These GSAs are tasked with developing and implementing specific plans to sustainably manage the state’s 127 most important groundwater basins. Good data is critical to sustainable and effective groundwater management, but, when it comes to groundwater, California suffers from significant data availability problems. Informed by a recent survey by Water in the West, this new workshop series seeks solutions to data-related challenges that GSAs are likely to face as they draft and implement implement their plans. More ...
 Climate Change and the Water-Energy Nexus in the US-Mexico Border Region
Scholars from the United States and Mexico gathered at Stanford this fall to discuss the intersections of climate change, water management and energy policy at the border of those two countries. Collaborative initiatives addressing the water-energy nexus are needed to more effectively manage those critical resources as the global climate changes and water scarcity increases, said Newsha Ajami, who organized the workshop, titled “Water-Energy Nexus in the Context of Climate Change,” to identify opportunities for joint research between academics at Stanford, the Tecnológico de Monterrey of Mexico, and other expert individuals and institutions. More ...
 CA Water Sector Moves Into the 21st Century
California’s water sector is going through a paradigm shift. As various communities throughout the state are debating how to overcome the current water shortages and secure reliable supplies for the future, there is an opportunity to rethink our current water supply portfolio and what we want it to look like in the future. More …
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