Groundwater Overpumping within the Tulare Lake Groundwater Basin Continues…

Their land is sinking. But Tulare Lake farm barons defy calls to cut groundwater pumping (Susanne RUST, Jessica GARRISON, Ian JAMES, and Paul DUGINSKI; Los Angeles Times; December 27, 2023)

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-12-27/tulare-lake-land-barons-defy-calls-to-cut-groundwater-pumping

San Joaquin Valley growers may face probation for failing to protect groundwater (Rachel BECKER, CalMatters/KVPR; October 12, 2023)

https://www.kvpr.org/environment/2023-10-13/san-joaquin-valley-growers-may-face-probation-for-failing-to-protect-groundwater

Research Articles

Groundwater depletion in California’s Central Valley accelerates during megadrought (LIU et al., 2022)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35582-x

Anthropogenic basin closure and groundwater salinization (PAULOO et al., 2021)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169420312488

Groundwater development leads to decreasing arsenic concentrations in the San Joaquin Valley, California (HAUGEN et al., 2021)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969721002898