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Monitoring Land Subsidence Workshop - October 2nd

Attend this workshop to learn about continued monitoring of subsidence impacts being conducted until longer-term Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) i ...

Paleo Drought Workshop

This workshop aims to help Southern California water agencies and other stakeholders improve drought preparedness and update Urban Water Management Plans. The w ...

Community Resources

Communities and citizens have to be proactive about flooding and mitigating flood risks. Each year, we mail out notices to property owners in the Central Valley ...

DWR Honors UCLA Scientist for Large Storm Forecasting Efforts with NASA

DWR presented Dr. Bin Guan with the 2018 Climate Science Service Award for his tool that identifies atmospheric rivers in weather models. The work supports expe ...

DWR Announces New Deputy Director 

DWR announced the appointment of Kristopher A. Tjernell as Deputy Director of the Integrated Watershed Management Program on May 9, 2018.

DWR Assistant Deputy Director Honored for Work on Oroville Spillways

The Sacramento Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) honored Ted Craddock, DWR Assistant Deputy Director of the State Water Project, with t ...

DWR Lead Scientist wins career achievement award

DWR’s Lead Scientist Ted Sommer, whose decades of research into fish and ecology has influenced scientific policy and management in California, received a caree ...

Tree-Ring Study Reveals Historical Drought Record in Southern California

As part of ongoing work to improve California’s preparedness for dry conditions and better adapt to climate change, DWR has released results of a study examinin ...

CalSim II

The Water Resource Integrated Modeling System (WRIMS model engine, or WRIMS) is a generalized water resources modeling system for evaluating operational alterna ...

Christmas Keeps on Giving to Lake Oroville Fish

DWR is once again participating in a successful partnership to recycle used Christmas trees into prime habitat for fish and other wildlife at Lake Oroville and ...

Chat with Environmental Scientist Nicole Kwan on the Delta’s Native Fish

Nicole Kwan is an environmental scientist with DWR’s Division of Environmental Services. Her work focuses on the aquatic ecology of the Delta, with emphasis on ...

New Scale Describes Intensity, Potential Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers

Many of us are familiar with the category system that ranks the severity of hurricanes and tornadoes. A similar system is now being rolled out for atmospheric r ...

State Collaborates with Farmers to Conserve Water, Provide Critical Habitat for Migratory Birds in the Delta

Farmers are receiving financial incentives to reduce their water use and protect wildlife and water quality in the Delta as part of a Delta Drought Response Pil ...

15th Annual Evening With An Industry: Oroville Spillway Recovery Efforts

Event includes a panel discussion of the Oroville Spillway recovery efforts with practicing engineers, followed by a social hour for students to interact with i ...

Other DWR Portals

DWR maintains data and information on several web portals outside of water.ca.gov. These include CDEC, Open Data, CIMIS, GIS mapping, Water Data Library, SGMA P ...

Feather River Fish Hatchery Seeks to Increase Production, Offset Drought Impacts to Feather River Chinook Salmon Populations

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) have announced a joint effort at the Feather River ...

In Memoriam of DWR’s Leader William Gianelli

William Gianelli, the Department of Water Resources’ (DWR’s) third Director, passed away at the age of 101 in Monterey, California on March 30. Known for being ...

DWR Symposium Highlights the Need to Prepare for Flooding Even During a Drought

With California in extreme drought and facing ongoing extreme climate events, DWR gathered scientists, water policy experts, and members of communities impacted ...

Conservation Tips

Water is a precious and limited resource, especially in drought-prone California where the next dry period could be right around the corner. As a result, water ...

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