WELLS

Fun facts:

–The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014 explicitly prioritizes domestic over agricultural use of groundwater throughout California.

–The Vina GSA, formed under the 2014 law to come up with a sustainability plan, just submitted it and promptly was sued by 3 environmental organizations for, among other derelictions, accepting groundwater tables sinking low enough to ensure the failure of hundreds of domestic wells. 

This organization's map corresponds directly to that of the Tuscan Water District, which is intended to separate the purposes of sustainability and developing the groundwater as a marketable resource. However, due to the cozy relationships (many of them family relationships) between the organizations, there is no meaningful distance between the fox and the henhouse here.

Supervisor Todd Kimmelshue, for example - one of  Tuscan's smilingest boosters — serves on both boards.

–By a Supreme Court precedent from the 1970s, water that is "recharged" into depleted groundwater aquifers belongs to whoever or whatever entity recharged it.