To adapt to intensifying extremes, federal, state, and local governments must be proactive in analyzing how climate change may impact California’s natural resources – as well as people and property. In a step to toward that goal, DWR released “Moving to Action”, a call for essential partnerships, planning, and collaboration with state, federal, and ...
DWR Updates
![Construction of Loafer Point Stage II boat ramp project with Bidwell Canyon Marina in the background.](/-/media/DWR-Images/Oroville/loafer-creek.png?mw=200&hash=338EB4DBB5EB89EE911A3BA5CB3467A0)
Lake Oroville Community Update for November 20, 2020.
In the third episode in the Delta Conveyance Deep Dive video series, we asked DWR climate change experts to explain the ways in which the Delta Conveyance Project addresses the challenges of a warming climate.
![CA Conservation Corps members install erosion control measures to protect water quality.](/-/media/DWR-Images/Oroville/AI_Water_Quality_Oroville_0828_11-05_20.jpg?mw=200&hash=5AF0BCCCFF1F15CCE2D1F5C5709FDA78)
Lake Oroville Community Update for November 13, 2020.
![DWR water quality experts collect samples from Lake Oroville for testing.](/-/media/DWR-Images/Oroville/AI_WaterTest_Oroville_0035_10-27_20-cropped-KLwBottle.jpg?mw=200&hash=00EDDEFAF3F87D1591446DA9EA8EC98D)
Lake Oroville Community Update for November 6, 2020.
DWR presented Climate Science Service Awards to four early-career scientists with the University of San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography at this year’s Winter Outlook Workshop.
![The habitat surrounding the future location of the Lookout Slough Tidal Restoration Project, located in the Cache Slough complex within the southern part of the Yolo Bypass in Solano County on October 13, 2020.](/-/media/DWR-Images/Delta/2020_10_13_FL_Lookout_Slough-0396.jpg?mw=200&hash=FC9D6C52979F7BA6FFB3486182D31B99)
DWR has moved one step closer to starting construction on the Delta’s largest multi-benefit tidal restoration and flood improvement project – Lookout Slough.
![Located at the eastern end of the Montezuma Slough in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the Suisun Marsh Salinity Control Gates maintain proper salinity levels in the Suisun Marsh during periods of low Delta outflow.](/-/media/DWR-Images/Delta/FL_Salinity_Gates-1648.jpg?mw=200&hash=F810E7EC2D65F1ACFBC13FDF8DD02ADA)
By experimenting with how salty ocean water mixes with fresh water within the Suisun Marsh, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) has found a way to improve habitat conditions for endangered delta smelt within the upper San Francisco Estuary.