New research describes the development and operation of a novel incentive program that uses water rebates to pay for some of the costs of stormwater capture, according to a press release from the University of California – Santa Cruz. Many aquifers in California and around the world are being drained of their groundwater because of the combined impacts of excess pumping, shifts in land use, and climate change. However, the new study published on Oct. 18 in Nature Water, may offer a solution. The study describes the development and operation of a novel incentive program that uses water rebates to pay for some of the costs of getting stormwater runoff into the ground. The program is called recharge net metering (ReNeM).