DWR Announces 100% State Water Project Water Allocation For 2023

The Department of Water Resources announced Thursday they would be boosting State Water Project allocations this year from 75% to 100%, meeting 100% of all water requests for the first time since 2006.

Statewide droughts in the 2010s and 2020s had severely limited water allocation in California, with allocation hitting an all-time low of 0% for several months last year due to the drought and the lack of meltwater refilling reservoirs. ---More...