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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 ...

Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) is a collaborative effort to manage all aspects of water resources in a region. IRWM crosses jurisdictional, watersh ...

On November 4, 2014, California voters approved Proposition 1, the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014. Proposition 1 authorized $ ...

Flood-MAR is a resource management strategy that uses flood water resulting from rainfall or snow melt for managed aquifer recharge (MAR) on agricultural lands ...

Our department, 1 of 7 under the umbrella of the California Natural Resources Agency, has: Approximately 3,500 employees, 11 main divisions, 8 main offices, 5 f ...

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

Water and energy are often managed separately, despite the important links between the two. Water is used in the production of nearly every major energy source. ...

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 ...

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

The California State Water Project (SWP) is a water storage and delivery system of reservoirs, aqueducts, power plants and pumping plants extending more than 60 ...

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

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

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

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

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