Laugan Miller

Jim Spickard

Research Methods

2/11/19

“Building Sustainable Groundwater Management in California”

The sustainability ground water act has formed agencies to bring water basins up to a higher standard in California. This is an important article because what happens to the water inside of a state can affect the water in our oceans. Drilling of wells to find more water has increased because of the drought California is experiencing which has had such a huge impact that the water table is lowering. Ground water makes up slightly less than fifty percent in normal years and more than fifty percent of water to cities and farmers in years when droughts are occurring. One of the proposed solutions is to collect groundwater and put it into a basin which can be used if it is a drought year. I thought this article might relate to my topic because it would give me a better understanding of some of the issues we are dealing with water management. To take it further I think it would be interesting to look at how creating more water environments would affect the water table. From this we could look at the effect of water not being able to run off into the ocean and see if it is a negative or positive effect on coastal ecosystems. Also the article brought up salinization of when the water table becomes lower than that of the ocean’s and our water gets saltier.

Pitzer, Gary. “Now Comes the Hard Part: Building Sustainable Groundwater Management in California.” Water Education Foundation, www.watereducation.org/western-water-magazine/now-comes-hard-part-building-sustainable-groundwater-management-california.