Bad water to the rescue? Converting brackish water into new fresh water supplies By Clark Easter GUEST COLUMNIST (Editor's note: While this story focuses on California and regulations there, water scarcity is a growing concern throughout the West. New processes outlined in this article could potentially be utilized in other regions.) I 20 Spudman.com n groundwater basins all over the state of California, the impact of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) is starting to become clearer. Basins are all now well along with calculating their sustainable yields, and, unfortunately, for many farmers the SGMA process is going to mean big cuts in their allowable groundwater pumping in order to stay within the calculated levels of sustainable groundwater extraction for their particular basin. Several basins in the state are looking at groundwater cuts of over 30%. Is fallowing farmland the only possible outcome under this process?http://www.Spudman.com