NewsPutting Flood Waters to Work: State Expedites Efforts to Maximize Groundwater Recharge

DWR is implementing an emergency program to divert high river flows away from flood-prone Central Va ...

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News DWR Conducts May 1 Snow Survey to Continue to Collect Data on Spring Runoff

DWR today conducted the fifth snow survey of the season at Phillips Station.

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Blogs DWR Working With 4 Counties in the Tulare Lake Basin To Support Snowmelt Flood Planning

DWR and multiple state, federal, and local agencies are working together to prepare for the snowmelt ...

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Blogs How Modernizing Infrastructure Can Help to Capture More Storm Flow

The series of atmospheric river storms that brought record-breaking amounts of rain and snow this ye ...

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Blogs DWR Hosts Tribal Water Summit to Discuss Water Issues with California Native American Tribes

The 2023 Tribal Water Summit is a unique collaboration opportunity created and organized on behalf o ...

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Acres of farmland irrigated by the State Water Project

60%

DWR's GHG reduction goal by 2030

12,400,000

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1,246

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