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A large portion of the State Water Project (SWP) has been financed from the issuance of general obligation and revenue bonds. Bond issuances account for 82 per ...

In 2008, the State Legislature authorized and directed the Department of Water Resources (DWR) to identify options for the reoperation of the state’s existing f ...

The Statewide Infrastructure Investigations Branch provides planning and technical expertise across DWR programs in support of sustainable water resources manag ...

The North Delta Flood Control and Ecosystem Restoration Program (NDFCERP) consists of flood control and habitat improvements where the Mokelumne River, Cosumnes ...

The West Delta is an extremely important asset that protects against migration of salt water ensuring water quality for upstream uses (including potable and agr ...

In February 2022, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) received $1.5 million in funding for the Juvenile Salmonid Collection System (JSCS) Pilot P ...

Several agencies and water districts have implemented restoration projects in the Butte Creek watershed, with the goals of improving fish passage, increasing na ...

At the John E. Skinner Delta Fish Protective Facility up to 15 million fish a year are saved from pumps that lift water into the California Aqueduct before they ...

Green Sturgeon are native to California and migrate from saltwater and brackish water to freshwater to spawn. Green Sturgeon are federally identified as a threa ...

The Interagency Ecological Program (IEP) is a consortium of State and federal agencies that has been conducting cooperative ecological investigations since the ...

In concert with the CDFW’s Zooplankton group, we collect discrete biological data in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Estuary. Benthic Organisms, phytoplankton and zo ...

Basin prioritization is the process of applying datasets and information in a consistent, statewide manner focused on the core premise that basins meeting the c ...

The Department of Water Resources constructs, operates, and maintains several large-scale infrastructure projects as part of its mission to sustainably manage t ...

Groundwater adjudication occurs when multiple water users in a single basin file an action in superior or federal district court to resolve a dispute about wate ...

New data released measure changes in land subsidence in the Sacramento Valley over the past nine years, finding the greatest land surface declines near the city ...

DWR conducted the third snow survey of the season at Phillips Station. Following a January and February that will enter records as the driest documented in stat ...

DWR today announced awarding $5 million in funding for seven emergency response agencies within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to increase their ability to re ...

It’s estimated that the California Gold Rush brought close to 300,000 people from all over the world to our state in the mid-19th century. Among them, were some ...

This webinar will present recommendations and ideas for how to consider and incorporate climate change projections into your UWMP in terms of water demands, sup ...