Growers and water managers in the Kaweah groundwater subbasin were gratified to see a formal recommendation this week for the state Water Resources Control Board to move the region from enforcement back to state oversight. The Water Board will vote on the recommendation to kick the subbasin back into the arms of the Department of Water Resources at its Dec. 2 meeting. … An issue that remains difficult is that farmers in a large chunk of the Greater Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) don’t have surface water and rely heavily on pumping. Meanwhile, surface water imported and recharged by farmers in the East and Mid-Kaweah GSAs, tends to drain toward Greater Kaweah.

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