This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 642224
On February 8-9, 2016, Laura Foglia and Steffen Mehl (Technische Universitet Darmstadt, DE) presented the FREEWAT project at the conference "Role of modelsand Data in implementing SGMA" at University of California, Davis (www.grac.org/role-of-models.asp).
SGMA stands for Sustainable Groundwater Management Act and it represents the new regulation that has been approved in California at the end of 2014 for promoting groundwater management. It is the California equivalent of the EU Water Framework Directives and more details can be found at (water.ca.gov/groundwater/sgm/index.cfm). Stakeholders, consultants and academics attended the conference and many consultants and stakeholders showed significant interest on our FREEWAT development and asked to test our beta version.