Antelope Valley Groundwater Basin Adjudication -
A California Court of Appeal recently issued two opinions affirming a physical solution limiting the right to pump groundwater by a landowner who has never pumped from the...more
Best Best & Krieger LLP, representing the City of Paso Robles, successfully defended the City in a jury trial that found the water suppliers had acquired prescriptive groundwater rights to the Paso Robles Groundwater Basin...more
10/3/2018
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Closing remarks given by Best Best & Krieger LLP Managing Partner Eric Garner and Practical Futurist Michael Rogers concluded The Bill is Due: Now What? Infrastructure, Pensions and the Environment, held April 24, 2018 at the...more
Best Best & Krieger LLP Managing Partner Eric Garner and Practical Futurist Michael Rogers give opening remarks at The Bill is Due: Now What? Infrastructure, Pensions and the Environment, held April 24, 2018 at the Richard...more
Best Best & Krieger LLP water attorney and managing partner, Eric Garner and John Freshman, senior director of governmental affairs, recently attended a meeting of Southern California water suppliers and water treatment...more
A triumvirate of bills that would establish California’s first-ever groundwater regulation law are now awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature. The bills, passed by the state Legislature on August 29, would establish the...more
Act Imposes Groundwater Management and Reporting Requirements on Local Agencies -
On Friday night, the California Legislature adopted a lawmaking package, including Senate Bills 1168 and 1319 and Assembly Bill 1739,...more
The water bond is not the complete solution to California’s water problems, but there is no single solution to California’s water problems. Making California’s water use sustainable in an uncertain future will require a...more
BB&K to Provide Input to the State on Groundwater Management -
The Office of Planning & Research (OPR) is seeking stakeholder input on actions to improve groundwater management in California, consistent with the...more
Climate change is essentially a water problem. Whether it is drought, flood, changing hydrology or rising sea levels, the impacts of climate change all involve water to some extent. Even those who deny that human activities...more