Executive Summary
In 2014 California governor Jerry Brown signed into law the State Groundwater Management Act, known as SGMA (pronounced as SIGMA). An article in the Sacramento Bee in late September of 2019, called the law "catastrophic" for California farmers. The article quoted the public policy institute of California which estimated that up to 750,000 acres of California farmland--approximately the size of Rhode Island--may eventually need to be fallowed in order to conform with the legislation. Starting in January 2020 California's high risk water catchment areas that have been overdrafting groundwater for decades, will