SGMA
A California law intended to prevent too much water from being pumped out of underground water reserves.
What is SGMA?
This river provides the main source of imported water for Los Angeles and San Diego.
What is the Colorado River?
The amount of water required to cover an acre of land (an area that is about the size of a football field), is one foot deep.
What is acre-foot?
This tiny fish became a symbol of California water controversies.
What is the Delta smelt?
A selective, six-month program for local elected Latino leaders that helps participants make an impact on California water policy while addressing individual community water challenges.
What is the UnTapped Fellowship?
This department is responsible for managing the SGMA program.
What is the State Water Resources Control Board?
This mountain range captures most of the snow that feeds California’s water system.
What are the Sierra Nevadas?
The water that rests on top of the earth in streams, lakes, rivers, oceans, and reservoirs.
What is surface water?
Groundwater overpumping can lead to this phenomenon, where land sinks.
What is land subsidence?
The year WELL was founded.
What is 2012?
SGMA requires the formation of these local agencies to manage groundwater basins.
What are Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs)?
This term describes the movement of water from northern California to the south through aqueducts and canals.
What is Water Conveyance?
The movement of water through the soil into groundwater
Percolation
Over 90% of this California habitat, once vital for migratory birds and aquatic species, has been lost to urban development and agriculture.
What are wetlands?
The location of WELL's 2026 Annual Conference
What is Fresno?
This department is responsible for reviewing and evaluating Groundwater Sustainability Plans.
What is the Department of Water Resources (DWR)?
This massive aqueduct carries water from Northern California’s rivers to Southern California cities.
What is the California Aqueduct?
A law enacted by the federal government that regulates the nation’s drinking water.
Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 (Federal Law)
This critical estuarine region, vital to California’s water system, faces habitat loss, saltwater intrusion, and altered flow due to upstream water diversions and large pumping facilities.
What is the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta?
Celeste Rodriguez and Anamarie Avila Farias.
What are CA Assembly members?
Before SGMA passed in 2014, California was the last western state without statewide regulation of this vital water resource.
What is groundwater?
California has this many recognized hydrologic regions for water planning.
(3,8,10)
What is 10?
The interdependency between water use and energy consumption, particularly relevant in California’s agriculture and power sectors
Water-energy Nexus
This large inland body of water in Southern California has shrunk and become increasingly salty, harming wildlife.
(near Palm Springs)
What is the Salton Sea?
The number of graduates from the UnTapped Fellowship Program
(91,106,124,289)
What is 106?