With the passage of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act in 2014, California is on the verge of a seismic shift in how the state manages and regulates extraction of groundwater. Until now, the right to extract and use groundwater has been virtually unregulated, with property owners having the right to extract whatever water lay beneath their land. Not for long.
On Sept. 16, 2014, the state Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown passed a package of bills, Assembly Bill 1739, Senat...
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