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State Water Project

The California State Water Project (SWP) is a water storage and delivery system of reservoirs, aqueducts, power plants and pumping plants extending more than 60 ...

Public Water Systems Statistics Surveys

The Water Use and Efficiency Branch conducts a yearly survey of public water agencies in the State of California. The data is used to update the California Wate ...

Human Right to Water

In 2012, California became the first state in the nation to recognize “every human being has the right to safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water adequate ...

Proposition 50 Delta Water Quality Grants

The Delta Water Quality and Fish Facilities Grant Program provides $23.75 million from Proposition 50 - The Water Security, Clean Drinking Water, Coastal and Be ...

Agricultural Land & Water Use Estimates

We provides estimates of irrigated crop acreages, crop evapotranspiration (ETc), evapotranspiration of applied water (ETAW), effective precipitation (EP), and a ...

Water Quality Monitoring & Assessment

Routine water quality monitoring efforts are conducted by EMP and MWQP, primarily in the Sacramento – San Joaquin River Delta (Delta). Bryte Lab analyzes wate ...

Water Safety

We partner with communities to create and run Aquatic Adventure Camps. These camps teach water safety to children and youth – especially ethnic minorities and t ...

Coastal Watershed Flood Risk Reduction Program

The Coastal Watershed Flood Risk Reduction Grant Program will fund projects in coastal areas that focus on multi-benefit flood risk reduction.

Proposition 84 Delta Water Quality Program

The Proposition 84 Delta Water Quality Program provided $90 million in grants to implement Delta water quality improvement projects that protect drinking water ...

Agriculture Water Use Efficiency CDFA-DWR Pilot Project

Through this competitive grant program, DWR and CDFA intended to demonstrate the potential multiple benefits of conveyance enhancements combined with on-farm ag ...

CalConserve Water Use Efficiency Loan Program

AB 92 (Statutes of 2015) authorized the transfer of funds from Proposition 1 (Water Code Section 79746) to the CalConserve Water Use Efficiency Revolving Fund t ...

SWP Water Contractors

The Department of Water Resources administers long-term water supply contracts to 29 local water agencies for water service from the State Water Project. These ...

Drinking Water Well Resources

As California’s climate conditions continue to intensify and become more variable, less snowpack, precipitation, and surface water is leading to an increased re ...

Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance

The Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance (MWELO) establishes standards for new and retrofitted landscapes and encourages the use of efficient irrigation sy ...

Urban Water Loss

Drought and other water shortage issues highlight the need to manage water loss in water distribution systems.

Groundbreaking Held for DWR-Funded Project to Improve Drinking Water, Sewer Services

Elected officials, federal and state government representatives, local agencies and community members gathered October 17 in Mecca, Calif., to witness the groun ...

DWR Captures and Stores Water from Record-Breaking Snowpack

2023 has demonstrated how quickly California can move from one extreme to another -- as severe drought conditions gave way to flooding and one of the largest sn ...

Grants and Loans

DWR offers a number of grant and loan programs that support integrated water management activities addressing environmental stewardship, water supply reliabilit ...

DWR's Groundwater Models Provide Valuable Resources for Managers of California's Critical Water Supply

California’s historic effort to bring sustainability to the state’s critically important groundwater basins revealed an increased need for new and easily access ...

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.

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