For the first time, California water regulators are cracking down on a farming region for failing to take steps to curb growers’ excessive pumping of groundwater, which has sent water levels into rapid decline and is causing the land to sink. https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-04-16/california-tulare-lake-groundwater-probation
A California farming region is placed on water probation

California's water board has for the first time put a farming region on probation for failing to adopt measures to curb excessive pumping of groundwater.

Los Angeles Times