Everything you need to know about California's historic water law
by Susie Cagle from Environment | The Guardian on (#4ZYBZ)
Regulation will have significant impacts on the state's $50bn agriculture industry, rural communities and endangered wetlands
California began regulating surface water in rivers and streams in 1914, but it took the state another 100 years to look underground.
In 2014, for the first time in its history, California passed a law regulating the use of groundwater - the resource on which 85% of its population and much of its $50bn agriculture industry rely.
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