Farmers and water managers in the Kaweah subbasin are charging headlong into recharge as a key strategy to both keep the state’s hands off its pumping and position growers to better withstand drought years. Fifteen recharge projects have been completed, are in progress or are in the design phase in the East Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) alone. And some farmers have begun building sinking ponds on their own land as well. The goal is to catch as much wet-year water as possible to stock up for dry years that are only as far away as the next water year.

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