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To Whom And Where Will The Water Go In California?

Law360, New York (October 1, 2015, 11:20 AM EDT) -- Last year, the California Legislature passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act ("SGMA"), an unprecedented attempt at addressing the lack of comprehensive groundwater regulation in the drought-stricken state. The SGMA gives local agencies oversight over the majority of the state's 515 alluvial groundwater basins and requires the adoption of sustainability plans for their management. Despite the SGMA's goal of curbing California's largely unmonitored draining of its aquifers, the act explicitly avoided imposing a scheme to clarify or define the rights of basin users, leaving in place the common law process of groundwater adjudication....

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