3860 Department of Water Resources
Major Program Changes
  • Emergency Drought Response - An increase of $14 million General Fund for the Department of Water Resources to implement statewide actions, including continuation of the Save Our Water campaign, operation of the drought management operations center, water transfer support and water supply modeling, and $10 million to provide emergency drinking water support for small communities, including addressing private wells.

  • Drought Preparedness and Resiliency for Urban Water Agencies - An increase of $4.5 million General Fund for a coordinated effort by the Department of Water Resources and the State Water Resources Control Board to review and update local water shortage contingency plans, develop recommendations for new water use efficiency targets, and establish a permanent urban water use efficiency data tracking system necessary to accomplish the directives of the Governor's May 9, 2016 Emergency Drought Executive Order.

  • Groundwater Sustainability Agency Facilitation - An increase of $1 million General Fund for the Department of Water Resources to support local public agencies with facilitation services as they implement the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.

  • Water Use Data Sets - An increase of $3.5 million General Fund for the Department of Water Resources to (1) support the use of remote sensing technology to establish statewide agricultural land use data that will inform the development of water budgets by groundwater agencies and (2) update data and fix safety hazards at 15 monitoring sites that are part of the National Hydrography Dataset, an important federal surface water mapping system.

  • Manage and Prepare for Dry Periods - An increase of $3 million General Fund for the Department of Water Resources to identify water delivery operational improvements in extreme conditions and evaluate long-term climate change impacts on statewide water supplies.