Every December, the members of the Colorado River Water Users Association – including water users, federal, tribal, state and local regulators, irrigation districts, engineers, conservationists, and others from all over the southwestern United States — gather at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada to get wild and talk about Colorado River water policy for a … Continue Reading
As detailed in our prior post, California is one of the few states that, until now, did not regulate use of groundwater. Its recent legislation is considered groundbreaking in that, for the first time, California will begin regulating groundwater. Attached is a recent presentation given by Squire Patton Boggs’ attorney, Chris Amantea, regarding the new legislation, at the California Bond Buyers’ Conference.… Continue Reading
For a state that has 840 miles of sweet Pacific Ocean coastline, it might seem ironic that California is hurting for water. But years of drought and unregulated groundwater use have devastated groundwater aquifers, forcing the California legislature to finally step in with what some farmers in California’s Central Valley are calling “draconian” regulation. The … Continue Reading
