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Bills to regulate California groundwater use opposed by farmers
2014-08-26 01:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A package of bills aimed at regulating drought-parched California's stressed groundwater supplies has come under fire from agricultural interests, injecting doubt into the measures' fates in the waning days of the state's legislative session this week. The bills, which would allow the state to take over management of underground aquifers and water accessed via wells, tighten oversight of water at a time when groundwater levels are shrinking in the third year of a catastrophic drought. If we...
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