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Summer 2026
- UC Davis Small Farmer Clinic Academic Memorandum on Well Permit Moratorium (Report by Mark A. Rigau, Eemon Ghasemiyeh, and Sawyer Kemmerly (07.16.26))
Spring 2026
- Bringing Sunshine Underground - Conflicts of Interest in Groundwater Management (Report by Alexandra Stock (04.16.2026))
- From Plans to Progress - How GSAs can Incentivize Sustainability to Prevent Groundwater Depletion and Maintain Local Control Under SGMA (Report by Kelley Xuereb, Drew Parrish, and Sarah Semaan (04.27.2026))
- Groundwater Sustainability and the California Drought (Report by Maya Peck, Caitlyn Brekke, and Karen K. Bains (04.17.2026))
- Two Kinds of Invisible - How Groundwater Governance Fails to See Small Farmers in China and California (Report by Jiayu Liu (04.30.2026))
- Underlying Groundwater: An Analysis of Groundwater Extraction Under the Public Trust Doctrine (Report by Quinn Todd (04.30.2026))
- GSA Well Registration Fees under SGMA (tax v. fee) (Report by Karen K. Bains, Maya Peck, and KC Cataldo (03.31.2026))
Fall 2025
- A Well Moratorium: Rethinking Agricultural Well Permitting in Yolo County (Report by Eugene Addo (12.11.2025))
- Introduction to Groundwater Allocations: Options to Assist Small Farmers as Groundwater Sustainability Agencies Implement Groundwater Sustainability Plans (Report by Nicole S. Knauer (11.25.2025))
- Land Use Conversions Under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (Report by Jack Bertrand (12.12.2025))