On June 9-10 at the Groundwater Resources Association of California’s Fourth Annual Groundwater Sustainability Agency (“GSA”) Summit: Working Toward Implementation, Kronick Shareholder Eric Robinson will participate in a panel discussion about the challenges, opportunities, and ongoing implementation of these programs in some of California’s groundwater basins. SGMA requires the development of a water budget and plan to manage a basin to achieve its sustainability goal. There can be tension between the development of water budgets that reflect how water physically moves into and out of a basin and the water rights framework which dictates who has rights to certain quantities and types of water. This potential tension becomes paramount when GSAs consider the development of groundwater allocation and transfer programs as a means to achieve sustainability. The integration of groundwater allocations and trading is both novel and crucial to the successful implementation of SGMA in many of the state’s basins. Please visit the event website for more information and to register.
