Northern Kings County residents and landowners are being asked to have a say in how a local groundwater agency responds to domestic wells going dry. At its Nov. 6 special meeting, the South Fork Kings Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) board approved releasing a draft of its $1.5 million well mitigation program for public comment for 30 days beginning Nov. 10. The draft program will aid domestic well owners, well dependent-communities and industrial well owners whose wells have gone dry or whose water quality has suffered due to excessive pumping. 

Other groundwater news across the West:

• LiveScience: Parts of Arizona are being sucked dry, with areas of land sinking 6 inches per year, satellite data reveals
• Peninsula Press (Palo Alto): Podcast: Groundwater rise, a looming threat in East Palo Alto
• KNPR (Reno, Nev.): State of Nevada podcast: Can a Nevada water rights buy-back program keep its groundwater from drying up?​