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DWR Launches New Web-Based Mapping Tool Showing Nearly 3,000 Groundwater Sustainability Projects

A new web-based tool developed by DWR will allow the public to explore thousands of groundwater projects across California to get a better understanding of one ...

DWR Releases Draft Environmental Impact Report for Delta Conveyance Project

DWR today released the Draft Environment Impact Report (Draft EIR) for the Delta Conveyance Project, marking an important step in evaluating a key strategy to a ...

State Celebrates Two Tidal Habitat Restoration Projects Benefitting Delta Smelt

State, federal, and local agencies gathered this week to celebrate two tidal habitat restoration projects in Solano County that support the survival of Delta sm ...

State Continues to Advance Sustainable Groundwater Management with Release of 17 Basin Determinations

The Department of Water Resources today announced decisions for groundwater sustainability plans in 17 non-critically overdrafted groundwater basins in Californ ...

Big Storms, Dry Spells, Demonstrate the Need for Improved Infrastructure and the Delta Conveyance Project

California is immersed in a third year of drought, with January, February and March of 2022 experiencing the lowest precipitation on record. Weather whiplash of ...

Public Meeting for the SWP Contract Amendment for Delta Conveyance

July 24 set for the first public meeting for the SWP Contract Amendment for Delta Conveyance.

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We provide technical guidance and assistance resources to local and regional organizations through 4 strategically located regional offices. The breadth of expe ...

Statement from DWR Director Karla Nemeth on Withdrawal of TUCP Application

The Department of Water Resources released the following statement from Director Karla Nemeth on the withdrawal of the Temporary Urgency Change Petition on Janu ...

DWR Contributes $16 Million to Support Desalination Research, Improved Energy Efficiency

California is facing the real-time impacts of a changing climate evident by our state’s historic drought. With limited water supplies, California must look to i ...

DWR Completes Installation of Emergency Salinity Drought Barrier

After three weeks of round-the-clock work, the emergency drought salinity barrier (EDSB) was completed in late June. The barrier will help prevent saltwater con ...

5 Reasons Groundwater is Vital to Californians

If you’re like most Californians, you turn on the faucet and probably don’t think about where your water comes from.

Q/A: Why floodplains are important for California salmon

We sat down with Hailey Wright, a Department of Water Resources (DWR) environmental scientist, to discuss the salmon lifecycle and her work designing and implem ...

DWR Awards $7 Million in Grants for Urban Streams Restoration

The Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced $7 million in grants to restore streams, creeks, and rivers to more natural environmental conditions and reduc ...

Pyramid Dam Modernization Program Team Completes Spillways Investigations

As part of an effort to modernize Pyramid Dam located in Los Angeles County, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) recently completed assessments for the dam’ ...

Monitoring Wells: DWR Helps Locals by Installing ‘Eyes Underground’

Groundwater is a life-giving resource located beneath our feet. It provides drinking water for millions of Californians, irrigation water for farmers who grow o ...

Seasonal Maps Provide Snapshot of State Groundwater Levels

Groundwater is an important resource for Californians because rain and snowfall levels can vary dramatically from year to year. Groundwater provides 40 percent ...

Groundwater Management and Drought: An Interview with the San Joaquin Valley Partnership

As California continues to experience historic drought conditions with less available snowpack and precipitation, groundwater basins are being more heavily reli ...

Through Challenges of Drought, Locally Led Solutions for Groundwater Sustainability Are Advancing

California’s groundwater basins are a critical part of the state’s water supply for millions of people. Small communities rely on it, individual homes rely on ...

Going with the Flow: How Aquifer Recharge Reduces Flood Risk

On a small scale, aquifers — subsurface natural basins — have been recharged with flood waters from extreme storms for decades. . Now, a new DWR assessment show ...

DWR Recognized for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Efforts

As climate change continues to cause greater weather extremes and impact water resources statewide, it is important that we reduce our carbon footprint. In reco ...

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