Sustainable Groundwater Management and Conflict Resolution Proceedings

Water UCI organized a two-day joint California-European Union workshop on Sustainable Groundwater Management and Conflict Resolution in June 2019, sponsored by the Orange County Water District, the Water Replenishment District and the Irvine Ranch Water District, and with further assistance from the State Water Resources Control Board, California Department of Water Resources, and the USGS California Water Science Center.

Workshop Objectives:

  • To describe case studies of European Union groundwater policy, governance, and management, especially related to implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive and the Groundwater Directive, and draw significant lessons for SGMA implementation.
  • To identify possible conflicts in SGMA implementation, e.g. inter-basins conflicts and/or conflicts between stakeholders (public or private), conflicts at various geographic scales (local, regional or international), and explore techniques for their anticipation, prevention, and mitigation.
  • To build on this effort as the first of a series of periodic workshops with future sessions centered on different groundwater issues.

Online Publication:

This publication of the workshop’s proceedings was drafted as a practical reference tool for use by practitioners. The proceedings gather the European Union case studies presented during the workshop, and summarize the resulting conclusions.

The following are the case studies: