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2024 Groundwater Awareness Week: Celebrating Our Great Hidden Resource
Groundwater is a huge part of California's climate adaptation plan, as hotter and more extreme weather will make our surface water supplies less reliable. Over the past two decades, a period that experts now consider a mega-drought, groundwater users pumped record amounts of groundwater, resulting in thousands of dry wells and severe land subsidence in areas of the state.
Analysis: State Water Board’s Proposal to Water Down Urban Water Conservation Regulation Leaves California at Risk of Shortages
Earlier today, water experts and environmental justice advocates provided a briefing to analyze the impacts of the State Water Board’s just-released updates to its proposed urban water conservation regulation.
ReThink Disposable joins the music business
Teaming up with reusable cup providers, r.World and TURN, along with the San Francisco Environment Department, we've achieved a remarkable feat eliminating disposable cups at historic Bay Area music venues.
New CA Executive Order N-4-23, Responding To The Urgent Need To Protect Communities From Flooding, Allows Groundwater Recharge That May Pollute Sources of Drinking Water
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today, the Governor signed Executive Order N-4-23, to allow many landowners to flood their lands, regardless if those flood waters could poison community drinking water supplies with industrial agricultural pollution or other natural contaminants.
2023 Groundwater Awareness Week in California
Because of our leadership in protecting groundwater, Clean Water Action was invited to join the Department of Water Resources in Sacramento on Monday to kick off Groundwater Awareness Week. Our Water Policy Analyst, Ngodoo Atume presented on the importance of engaging and protecting vulnerable communities that depend on groundwater.