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DWR's Salton Sea Unit supports the California Natural Resources Agency’s Salton Sea Management Program (SSMP), created by Governor Brown’s Salton Sea Task Force ...

In 2018, the California Legislature enacted into law new requirements for urban water suppliers to increase drought resilience and to improve communication of w ...

The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), passed in 2014, requires the development of Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSP) by Groundwater Sustainabil ...

The Urban Streams Restoration Program (USRP) provides grants to local communities for projects to: Reduce flooding, erosion, and associated property damage, Res ...

Bulletin 118 is California’s official publication on the occurrence and nature of groundwater statewide. Bulletin 118 defines the boundaries and describes the h ...

The California Water Plan (PDF) is the State's strategic plan for sustainably managing and developing water resources for current and future generations. Requir ...

The Sustainable Groundwater Planning (SGWP) Grant Program provides funds for projects that develop and implement sustainable groundwater planning and projects.

Subsidence is the sinking of the land surface due to changes in the soil or sediment beneath our feet. Subsidence occurs for a variety of reasons such as ground ...

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

DWR is the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) lead agency for the Searsville Watershed Restoration Project which will be implemented by Stanford Univer ...

A directory of program staff and regional and field division staff.

Water transfers between willing sellers and willing buyers can help stretch California's water supplies in dry times and move water to places of critical need. ...

Governor Brown noted upon signing the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) that groundwater is best managed at the local level, and that the State's pr ...

Thank you for your interest in teaching about water. To help you engage your students, the Department of Water Resources offers the following water education ma ...

The Riverine Stewardship Program is codified in state law (CWC 7049), and its component subprograms (Fish Passage Improvement Program, San Joaquin Fish Populati ...

The Department of Water Resources’ (DWR) Water Desalination Grant Program has completed reviewing the grant applications submitted through the Continuous Applic ...

DWR environmental scientists – Morgan Battey, Vanessa Velasco, and Chelsea Palisoc – shared their diverse contributions to protecting the environment in a week- ...

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