Introducing the six sustainable management criteria to achieve groundwater sustainability (Adapted from California Water Act)

Document Type : Other scientific contents

Author

Hashem Derakhshan

PhD.student of water science and engineering and researcher at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

Abstract

The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) is a three-bill package that passed the California state legislature and was signed into California state law by Governor Jerry Brown in September 2014. Its purpose is to ensure better local and regional management of groundwater use and it seeks to have a sustainable groundwater management in California by 2042.This law, developed the six sustainable management criteria to achieve groundwater sustainability, and this report introduces these criteria. It also characterizes the relationship between the different sustainable management criteria – the sustainability goal, undesirable results, minimum thresholds, and measurable objectives as an important part to develop a Groundwater Sustainable Plan (GSP).

Keywords

Sustainable Management Criteria

Best Management Practices

undesirable results

minimum thresholds

measurable objectives

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References

Owen D, Cantor A, Green Nylen N, Harter T and Kiparsky M (2019) California groundwater management, science-policy interfaces, and the legacies of artificial legal distinctions. Environmental Research Letters. IOP Publishing 14(4):045016. Available at: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab0751

DWR 2017. Draft Sustainable Management Criteria. Best Management Practice (BMP). California Department of Water Resources, California. Available at: https://www.water.ca.gov/LegacyFiles/groundwater/sgm/pdfs/BMP_Sustainable_Management_Criteria_2017-11-06.pdf