Community Voices: State Water Board closing in

Community Voices: State Water Board closing in

As of April 2025, Kern County’s situation under California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act is serious. The Kern Subbasin — one of the largest and most heavily pumped groundwater basins in the state — was officially placed on probation by the…

Judge orders groundwater agency to speed up records release in lawsuit over sinking Friant-Kern Canal – SJV Water

A Tulare County judge agreed that a local groundwater agency was dragging its feet producing documents in a lawsuit filed by Friant Water Authority but also chastised the authority for being “passive” about what it wanted and when. This is the latest twist in the legal saga between Friant and the Eastern Tule Groundwater Sustainability Agency. Friant had filed a motion April 14 to get Eastern Tule to ramp up its production of records showing how…