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The National Flood Insurance Program is administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and enables property owners in participating communities ...

National Groundwater Awareness Week (#GWAW2018) is an annual event established to highlight the responsible development, management, and use of groundwater.

The National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) and Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD) are used to portray the flow of surface water on the The National Map which is maint ...

This notice serves to inform all interested parties that new regulations for administration enforcement and information requests prepared by the California Depa ...

DWR released new satellite-based data that show subsidence – or the sinking of the land surface due to excessive groundwater pumping – continues in the state. D ...

With California in the third year of a severe drought and facing continued extreme weather swings, DWR has been developing and using new data and forecasting to ...

Following several years of planning and investment, the City of Antioch has reached a climate-resilient milestone: a new brackish water desalination facility ne ...

The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) will soon have new grant funding available to help advance California’s climate resilience goals, made possib ...

DWR took another step in its ambitious efforts to reduce climate change impacts by replacing an old electricity-generating turbine with a new, energy efficient ...

DWR, Flood Maintenance and Operations Branch (FMO) is pleased to announce that the new Flood System Repair Program Guidelines 2021 Update is now available.

Addressing the dual challenges of climate change impacts and endangered species protections, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) has received a n ...

Today, the Department of Water Resources released its final 2023 State Water Project Delivery Capability Report, which presents a new and enhanced analysis of c ...

As California enters a possible fourth dry year, DWR has released its biennial report to help water managers better understand how key factors, like climate cha ...

A new report released today by the Department of Water Resources (DWR) examines how a combination of strategies, most importantly the Delta Conveyance Project, ...

As directed by 2018 legislation, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) today submitted a first report to the State Water Resources Control Board summarizing h ...

A new report released today shows that changes to reservoir operations at Lake Oroville and New Bullards Bar Reservoir can further reduce flood risk for communi ...

California’s Groundwater Data Collection is Empowering Local Agencies to Implement Solutions Tailored to Communities

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 ...

Conserving water has become a way of life in California, especially as projections forecast warmer, drier conditions. The State’s new water year has begun and w ...

DWR today highlighted how the State and its federal and local partners are preparing for the new water year which started October 1 and the possibility of anoth ...