State water agencies, the California Water Data Consortium (Consortium) and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) announced a new partnership today to make an open-source groundwater accounting platform freely available to help groundwater sustainability agencies manage the transition to sustainable supplies.
![Glen Gordon, engineering geologist with the California Department of Water Resources, cleans the tape used to measure the water depth at specific agricultural wells in Colusa County on March 17, 2016. Measuring and recording takes place a couple times a year throughout the state at multiple locations to help develop databases for groundwater levels, and report hydrologic data and historic groundwater levels.](/-/media/DWR-Images/Placeholder-images/news/KG_GW_well_measure_41943.jpg?mw=200&hash=498BD7E5E0A4458DEEC7E61F98B0F30D)