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Groundwater Accounting Platform


CREATING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
FOR WATER RESOURCES




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ABOUT THE PLATFORM



The Groundwater Accounting Platform enables water managers, landowners, and
water users across California to track water availability and use in near
real-time.

THE PROBLEM


WHY IS THE PLATFORM NEEDED?


CALIFORNIA'S RELIANCE ON GROUNDWATER DURING EXTREME ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

Water is critical to a vibrant and prosperous California. As the State's water
infrastructure ages and climate change strains California's water resources, it
is critical that State and local agencies, and communities have the information
and tools necessary to manage irregular and unpredictable water supplies.


OVERDRAFTING IMPACTS PEOPLE, COMMUNITIES, AND BUSINESSES

In the midst of a severe drought, groundwater pumping increased, and wells were
dug deeper and deeper. Groundwater overpumping caused wells to dry up and land
to sink, leading communities to run out of drinking water and millions of
dollars of infrastructure damage.


AVOIDING THE WORST CASE SCENARIOS

Without sustainable groundwater practices, California is susceptible to
irreversible outcomes like land subsidence, seawater intrusion, degraded water
quality, and depleted groundwater aquifers.

THE SOLUTION


YOU CAN’T MANAGE WHAT YOU CAN’T MEASURE


SGMA: THE SUSTAINABLE GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT ACT REQUIRES LOCAL AGENCIES TO
BETTER UNDERSTAND, TRACK AND ACCOUNT FOR GROUNDWATER USE ACROSS DESIGNATED
BASINS.

In 2014, the California Legislature passed the Sustainable Groundwater
Management Act (SGMA) establishing a statewide framework to protect groundwater
resources over the long-term. It requires local agencies to form groundwater
sustainability agencies (GSAs) in priority basins and to develop and implement
groundwater sustainability plans (GSPs) to mitigate undesirable outcomes over
the 20 year plan implementation horizon.


THE GROUNDWATER ACCOUNTING PLATFORM ENABLES WATER MANAGERS, GROWERS, AND WATER
USERS ACROSS CALIFORNIA TO TRACK WATER AVAILABILITY AND USE IN NEAR REAL-TIME.

Climate change and population growth are driving many communities to make tough
decisions about water use. It is more important than ever that water managers
and agricultural water users have access to the best possible data to guide
these decisions and balance supply and demand. To chart a sustainable future for
water resources, the open-source Groundwater Accounting Platform was developed
to provide an easy to use, cost-effective option for groundwater accounting.


TOOLS FOR LOCAL AUTHORITY ARE BUILT INTO THE GROUNDWATER ACCOUNTING PLATFORM.

The Groundwater Accounting Platform integrates information from OpenET and other
sources, along with scenario planning functionality, allowing GSAs to plan and
prepare under different scenarios. The tool can be used to support local
decision-making by providing district managers and landowners with a
state-supported accounting tool that communicate water budgets and accounting
under SGMA.


SCENARIO PLANNING IS INTEGRATED INTO THE PLATFORM USING THE OPEN-SOURCE
GROUNDWATER EVALUATION TOOLBOX.

The Groundwater Accounting Platform includes scenario planning functionality
using the open-source Groundwater Evaluation Toolbox (GET), developed by Olsson.
This addition enables users to run model scenarios to assess the impacts of
pumping, water trading, recharge, and other potential management scenarios.
These scenario runs can support refinement of existing water budgets and the
management actions to achieve long-term groundwater sustainability.

The Groundwater Accounting Platform is developed using open-source software
under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL). It can be redistributed
and/or modified under the terms of AGPL. Source code is available on request.
The Groundwater Accounting Platform is built thanks to the support and
cooperation of many partners and funders.


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