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The department was created in 1956 by Governor Goodwin Knight following severe flooding across Northern California in 1955, where they combined the Division of Water Resources of the Department of Public Works with the State Engineer's Office, the Water Project Authority, and the State Water Resources Board. [1]
California water control systems managed by the California Department of Water Resources. Photo: California Department of Water Resources ©California Department of Water Resources
The State Water Resources Control Board was established from the State Water Quality Control Board and the State Water Rights Board by an Act of 1967. [ 4 ] California's pioneering clean water act is the 1969 Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act (Porter-Cologne Act). [ 5 ]
The planning and management of water in California is subject to a vast number of laws, regulations, management plans, and historic water rights. The state agency responsible for water planning is the California Department of Water Resources. Map of California Integrated Regional Water Management Plans
California’s two main water delivery systems in the Delta, the State Water Project and the Central Valley Project, deliver water to farmlands and about 30 million people.
The State Water Resources Control Board is scheduled to vote on the rules later this year. ... Water is a precious resource in the nation's most populous state. California has long, dry summers ...
Calls for a comprehensive statewide water management system (complementing the extensive, but primarily irrigation-based Central Valley Project) led to the creation of the California Department of Water Resources in 1956. The following year, the preliminary studies were compiled into the extensive California Water Plan, or Bulletin No. 3.
The State Water Resources Control Board aims to build a database that integrates a century of water rights records, geospatial mapping and up-to-date water diversion data that’s available to the ...