A new report on the economic impacts of California’s groundwater law has added scientific rigor to rising concerns about the San Joaquin Valley’s future. The dire findings have also been helping a coalition establish a middle ground in finding solutions to the deeply entrenched and decades-old water conflicts. Yet the work has been put on hold for the rest of 2020 due to a cascading series of legal and regulatory actions and political decisions from the Trump and Newsom administrations – along with the new global economic uncertainty stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic…