Already heated tensions flared Friday when a southern Tulare County dairy farmer noticed what appeared to be signs illustrating subsidence levels being affixed to a telephone pole across the street from his ranch in the Pixley Irrigation District. … He wrote in the post that attempts to speak to the people putting up the signs didn’t yield many answers, although one man’s hat offered a clue: Delano-Earlimart Irrigation District (DEID). … The photo op was, indeed, orchestrated by DEID to illustrate the level of subsidence in that area.

Other groundwater news:

• Public Policy Institute of California: Blog: How to protect ecosystems that need groundwater
• SJV Water (Bakersfield, Calif.): Kings County Water District focuses on development
• California Water Boards: Kaweah Subbasin staff assessment