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Native fish, including smelt and salmon, in the southern Yolo Bypass in Yolo County have new sources of food and shelter thanks to a project that successfully r ...

DWR is working to reduce flood risks for more than a half million people in the Sacramento region as part of the first multi-benefit flood management and habita ...

The goal of DWR’s Division of Multi-Benefit Initiatives (DMI) is to implement programs and projects that reduce flood risk, and provide other benefits such as f ...

Meeting on MWELO Guidebook and local Agency updates.

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 ...

California is taking a new, data-driven approach to capturing floodwaters for groundwater recharge. DWR, in coordination with GEI Consultants, has released the ...

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 ...

DWR has released a comprehensive new assessment of water conveyance in the San Joaquin Valley – home to more than 4 million Californians and one of the nation’s ...

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, ...