SGMA
A California law intended to prevent too much water from being pumped out of underground water reserves.
What is SGMA?
The percentage of the population in California that is Latino.
What is 40%?
The amount of water required to cover an acre of land (an area that is about the size of a football field), one foot deep.
What is acre foot?
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 WELL UnTapped Fellowship Program?
What tool and practice develops new knowledge by receiving information driven by curiosity and incorporating it into your self-interest driven by your current responsibility
Who is the WELL Method of Inquiry?
This department is responsible for managing the SGMA program.
What is the State Water Resources Control Board?
The name of the water conveyance system that delivers water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to Central Valley, and Southern CA regions.
What is the State Water Project?
The water that rests on top of the earth in streams, lakes, rivers, oceans, and reservoirs.
What is surface water?
UnTapped Fellowship graduates (WELLo’s) are inducted into this network, where they can continue to engage in training opportunities focused on California water policy.
What is WELL UnTapped Network?
The difference between a WELLo and a Fellow.
What is a Graduate of the WELL UnTapped Fellowship Program (WELLo) and a current Fellow in the WELL UnTapped Fellowship Program (Fellow)?
This contaminant, commonly found in fertilizers and known for causing serious health issues in infants (known as blue baby syndrome), has an MCL of 10 mg/L.
What is nitrate?
What percentage of water used by California cities and farms comes from underground aquifers? (Est)
What is 40%?
The largest usage of water in households.
What is outdoor water usage?
These events are spearheaded by graduates of the UnTapped Fellowship Program (WELLos) in conjunction with California State Senators or Assemblymembers to educate local elected leaders.
What is WELL UnTapped Legislative Water Workshops?
Four reasons why we work with local elected officials (name 1).
1. Small cities, schools, and water districts lack staff expertise to tackle residents' water challenges. 2. Local elected officials are closest to their constituents. 3. They are advocating for local resources. 4. Many Assembly and State Senate members are former local elected officials, so WELL believes they will carry their knowledge into these roles.
Specific areas where groundwater levels are extremely low due to overpumping year after year, resulting in sinking land, loss of underground storage, saltwater seeping into the aquifer, and more.
What are critically overdrafted basins?
What is the percentage of CA water usage in urban areas?
What is 40%?
AG = 50%
Enviroment=10%
An underground space where water collects
What is an aquifer?
When and where will the next Annual Conference be held?
What is March 7 & 8 and Anaheim?
The number of graduates from the WELL UnTapped Fellowship Program (Best guess).
What is 106 CA Local Elected Leaders?
Permanently stopping farming in dry areas where there is not enough water from rivers, reservoirs, or underground aquifers to irrigate the trees or crops on an ongoing basis.
What is land retirement?
How many people depend on water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta? (Est)
What is 30 million people
A law enacted by the federal government that regulates the nation’s drinking water.
Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 (Federal Law)
This program will provide leadership training for women and People of Color for mid-level professionals in the water and energy sector
What is the Educate to Lead program?
Celeste Rodriguez and Anamarie Avila Farias.
Who are the first two UnTapped graduates that will go on to serve in the Assembly? Name One