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Visalia-based nonprofit swamped by requests for help from San Joaquin Valley groundwater agencies

July 30, 2024

• by Lisa McEwen, SJV Water

Self-Help Enterprises, a nonprofit that works with rural valley residents whose wells go dry, may need a little help of its own as more and more groundwater agencies are hoping to use it as a pillar in their plans to reach sustainability. The nonprofit already has a $5.8 million annual contract with groundwater sustainability agencies…

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Groundwater agency sues Delano over Niagara water bottling plant

May 24, 2024

• by Lois Henry

Concerns over how a newly built water bottling plant will impact the already over drafted aquifer prompted the Southern San Joaquin Municipal Utility District to sue the City of Delano last month. The district is asking that approvals for the Niagara water bottling plant be set aside and, ultimately, that a permanent injunction be granted…

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Delano water bottling plant prompts concerns over exporting native groundwater

January 3, 2024

• by Lois Henry

News of the new Niagara Bottling plant going up in Delano hit the local groundwater agency with surprise and alarm. The plant is permitted to use 1.6 million gallons of groundwater per day, according to a will-serve letter issued by the city in August 2022. That works out to 1,788 acre feet per year, assuming…

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Visalia-based nonprofit swamped by requests for help from San Joaquin Valley groundwater agencies

Groundwater agency sues Delano over Niagara water bottling plant

Delano water bottling plant prompts concerns over exporting native groundwater

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