Water rights and legal issues

California's working on replenishing our underground water supplies for dry times ahead, but putting water back into the ground can be more complex than it seems. Video by Sustainable Conservation.

This presentation from the San Diego Law Library originally aired on Sept. 23, 2020.

One of the biggest challenges to implementing California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) centers on deciding who gets to pump how much groundwater without changing groundwater rights. To provide more clarity to groundwater agencies on how to navigate this challenge, Environmental Defense Fund partnered with four leading law experts to develop the law review article, which takes a deep dive into the relationship between SGMA and groundwater rights.