Posts By: Gail Delihant

California Assembly Unanimously Passes Groundwater Adjudication Bill; Bill Awaits Senate Action

On a 76-0 vote, the California Assembly passed a bill (AB 1390 – Alejo/Gomez ) that makes improvements to the process governing judicial proceedings related to groundwater adjudications. The changes reduce the burden of groundwater adjudications on both the courts and claimants without altering the law of groundwater rights and without disrupting the Sustainable Groundwater ...

Budget Proposal to Raise Water Right Fees by $4.1 Million Halted

Western Growers successfully led a coalition of agricultural organizations in stopping the administration’s proposal to increase water rights fees by $4.1 million to pay for the completion of the Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan.  This proposal would have resulted in a significant increase in water rights fees especially for growers in the Imperial Valley and ...