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The Department of Water Resources should enhance groundwater protection with changes to California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.
By Jeanette Howard
Jeanette Howard is the director of the freshwater science team at The Nature Conservancy, California, jeanette howard@tnc.org.
Melissa M. Rohde
Barton H. Thompson, Special to CalMatters
Barton H. Thompson is a senior fellow of the Woods Institute for the Environment, and faculty director of Water in the West at Stanford University, buzzt@stanford.edu.
While California’s landmark Sustainable Groundwater Management Act promised comprehensive protection of the state’s groundwater, significant gaps remain in its coverage.