Education

Two series of newsletters relating to groundwater are being released by the University of California Cooperative Extension and the University of California.

The first is a series of six newsletters discussing topics related to groundwater, water wells and pumping plants.  The links to each newsletter are below.

• Seeking and Understanding the Groundwater Aquifers Systems in the Northern Sacramento Valley
  
  
• Incentives for Groundwater Management in the Northern Sacramento Valley
  
  
• Possible Approaches to Groundwater Management in the Northern Sacramento Valley
  
  
• Groundwater Level Monitoring:  What is it?  How is it done?  Why do it?
  
  
• Water Well Design, Construction, and Development:  Important Considerations Before Making the Investment
  
  
• Pumping Plants and Pumping Plant Efficiency:  Basics Worth Remembering  

The second set is a series of five to be published in 2005/2006 discussing topics related to groundwater and water wells in the northern Sacramento Valley.  The links to each newsletter are below.

• Seeking an understanding of the groundwater aquifer systems in the northern Sacramento Valley:  An update  
  
  
• Conjunctive Water Management:  What is it?  Why consider it? What are the challenges?   
  
  
• Land Subsidence:  What Is It and Why Is It An Important Aspect of Groundwater Management?  

   

• Monitoring Groundwater Quality:  An Important Aspect of Groundwater Management  
  
  
• Working to Understand Groundwater Quality in the Northern Sacramento Valley