![Glen Gordon, engineering geologist with the California Department of Water Resources, measures groundwater levels at a designated monitoring well in Colusa County on March 17, 2016.](/-/media/DWR-Images/Groundwater/KG_GW_well_measure_42084.jpg?mw=200&hash=E356EC00D934A673B00C05E50860516B)
California’s historic effort to bring sustainability to the state’s critically important groundwater basins revealed an increased need for new and easily accessible groundwater data and tools to help local agencies better understand and manage their groundwater basins.