Nearly eight years ago, during our last severe drought in 2014, the California Legislature took bold action to enact landmark groundwater legislation known as the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). Less than a decade later, the West is experiencing continued historic drought impacts that have researchers claiming this to be the most gri ...
Lake Oroville Community Update for July 22, 2022.
Modernizing how California moves water supplies across the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta can’t be done by repeating the past.
Lake Oroville Community Update for July 8, 2022.
A year after receiving funding from the Budget Act of 2021, DWR has successfully awarded more than $440 million to date in drought relief assistance to small and urban communities to address water supply challenges and help build local resilience.
Lake Oroville Community Update for July 8, 2022.
Preventing fish from getting caught up in the water diverted at the intakes - a situation known as “entrainment” - is a high priority and many innovative technologies have been developed to meet the challenge.
Lake Oroville Community Update for July 1, 2022.
Oroville’s Feather River Fish Hatchery (FRFH) released over 11.3 million young Chinook salmon smolts into the waters of the Feather River, San Pablo Bay, and San Francisco Bay from March to June 2022 to support Northern California and Pacific Ocean fisheries. These fish include both spring and fall-run Chinook salmon.
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 tools to better anticipate and manage available water supplies.