The Central Valley pumps around 7 million acre-feet of groundwater per year, enough to supply more than 15 million average American households, and almost all of it is used for agriculture.

But gravity means going downhill and that has gotten complicated. Decades of groundwater pumping have caused the valley floor to sink, and the canal with it. KPIX first toured the site back in ...

The program was launched in 2021 to provide free replacement water for nitrate-impacted wells in the Central Valley.

Now stripped of its once vast wetlands and nearly sucked dry from the overpumping of groundwater during the West’s increasingly common droughts, the fertile Central Valley in California is in need of ...

California's Central Valley produces over a third of ... where most farming operations rely heavily on groundwater, especially during drought years. Water managers have occasionally been forced ...

The Central Valley Water Board expanded its Nitrate Control Program (NCP) to eight more groundwater basins at the end of February. The program was launched in 2021 to provide free replacement ...