Yolo Subbasin Groundwater Agency (YSGA)
Supporting the YSGA’s GSP Update (2024-Current)
We are supporting the YSGA in annual update reporting, 5-year update, land-use projections, and Hungry Hollow specific management objectives. Specific activities include leading the YSGA model update process, investigating and incorporating OpenET estimates in water budget computations, facilitating land-use projections, and developing future climate and land-use scenarios.
Pistachio orchard in Yolo County, California.
All over the Central Valley, permanent tree crops are replacing annual crops, and in some counties, also expanding into non-farmed land. Understanding the water consumption of such changes is important for both and long-term sustainability. UC Davis researchers are assisting us with their monitoring – pictured here, with eddy flux towers measuring evapotranspiration from a young Pistachio orchard. Photo: V. Mehta, 10/2024. With thanks to Daniele Zacarriah, UC Davis.
