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Last week, the Bureau of Reclamation began releasing water from Friant Dam near Fresno into the San Joaquin River meet contractual obligations to deliver Central Valley Project water to the San Joaquin River Exchange Contractors on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. The release was increased from 680 …

The Department of Water Resources (DWR) conducted the fourth snow survey of the season Friday and found nearly bare ground. The manual survey conducted at Phillips Station on April 1 recorded just 2.5 inches of snow depth and a snow water equivalent of one inch, which is four percent of …

Governor Newsom signed an executive order this week calling for water agencies to activate Level 2 of their drought contingency plans and for the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) to explore implementing regulations to ban irrigation of “non-functional” turf at industrial and commercial buildings. “While we have made historic …

Funding for drought relief continues to be doled out by the state in an effort to make California more resilient in the face of lingering drought conditions. Monday, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced its second phase of funding through the Urban and Multibenefit Drought Relief Grant program.  Of …

On Friday, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced they will be cutting water deliveries to 5 percent. Initially, the allocation was set for 15 percent of requested supply, but a dry January and February forced the agency to reduce deliveries in order to conserve available water supply. In …

Earlier this week the Bureau of Reclamation approved an additional $17.5 million in WaterSMART Drought Resiliency Project grants for ten more projects in the Western United States. According to Reclamation this additional funding supplements the prior $20.5 million in WaterSMART grant funding that was announced in January 2022, for a …