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PUBLICATIONS & ARTICLES
California: Groundwater Management, Conjunctive Use and Water Banking, Western Water Law & Policy Reporter, Vol. 10, No. 5
By Nicholas A. Jacobs
With water supplies throughout California struggling to keep up with increasing demand, groundwater remains an important source of supply. Unlike the complicated permitting system for California surface waters, groundwater has historically been unregulated throughout California. Recently, the increasing importance of groundwater as a source of water supply is leading to various forms of regulation, including county ordinance, basin adjudications and efforts by the California State Water Resources Control Board to exercise jurisdiction over certain groundwater by defining it as a "subterranean stream." To be sure, there is a lot going on in California groundwater law.
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