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), is one foot deep.
What is acre-foot?
This tiny fish became a symbol of California water controversies.
What is the Delta smelt?
This is the name for the system that collects and delivers drinking water to homes, businesses, and farms across the state.
What is a water distribution system?
This department is responsible for managing the SGMA program.
What is the State Water Resources Control Board?
This civil rights leader and co-founder of the United Farm Workers is buried at the National Chavez Center in Keene, California.
Who is César Chávez?
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 subsidence?
This type of large pipe or canal is used to move water over long distances, such as from Northern California to Southern California.
What is an aqueduct?
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 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?
Completed in 1968, this concrete arch dam on the Feather River not only forms California’s second-largest reservoir but became the subject of national attention in 2017 after spillway failures triggered the evacuation of nearly 200,000 people.
What is Oroville Dam?
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 over-drafted basins?
An elected official who represents the Latino constituency
What is WELL's definition of a Latino Leader?
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?
To adapt to reliance on climate-sensitive snowpack, California’s water infrastructure uses real-time data, forecasting, and flexible reservoir operations, a strategy known as this.
What is Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations (FIRO)?
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?
The number of graduates from the WELL UnTapped Fellowship Program (Best guess).
What is 106?
The interdependency between water use and energy consumption, particularly relevant in California’s agriculture and power sectors
Water-energy Nexus
This process, caused by excess nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus, leads to harmful algal blooms and oxygen-depleted “dead zones” in bodies of water.
What is eutrophication?
This advanced treatment process uses a semipermeable membrane to remove ions, molecules, and larger particles from drinking water and is essential in desalination.
What is reverse osmosis?