The Kings County Farm Bureau is passing the hat to raise between $1.5 million and $2 million to take its legal claims against the state Water Resources Control Board to the California Supreme Court.  “We’re not stopping,” Executive Director Dusty Ference told a gathering of about 30 farmers Friday. … Ference referred to opinions issued last week by the Fifth District Court of Appeal that both sided with the state by tossing out a preliminary injunction and kept the meat of the Farm Bureau’s lawsuit intact for trial in Kings County Superior Court. 

Other groundwater news:

• FOX26 (Bakersfield, Calif.): Kings County Farm Bureau take fight over groundwater limits to the Calif. Supreme Court
• The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, Calif.): Study finds California drought triples water prices. Could groundwater storage be answer?
• The Times-Delta (Visalia, Calif.): Tulare County Voices to host forum on groundwater and land subsidence, a ‘pending crisis’
• TechSpot: Blog: Terraforming startup wants to save sinking cities with robot-powered land lifts
• Invisible Waters: Blog: Well into the future — looking at a groundwater rights retirement pilot program