Mission

The Office of Water Use Efficiency and Transfers provides support for the stewardship of California's water resources by promoting and facilitating the energy efficient use of water (including water transfers) and facilitates in the CALFED solution area. This office is responsible for water use efficiency planning and coordination. Our services include technical and financial assistance, information collection and dissemination, resources evaluation, and implementation, reviewing, facilitating and implementing water transfers.

Services

• Provides expertise to local agencies and individuals regarding agricultural and urban water and energy conservation, reclamation and reuse of water, land and water use, and drainage management.
• Manages the California Irrigation Management Information System (CIMIS) by collecting weather data from over 120 stations and disseminating calculated reference evapotranspiration (ETo) to assist landscape and crop managers irrigate efficiently.
• Assists in establishing mobile laboratories that conduct irrigation system evaluations.
• Carries out data analysis, demonstration projects, and research to achieve energy and water use efficiency.
• Provides loans and grants to make more efficient use of water and energy resources.
• Facilitate water transfers in a manner that prevents: 1) injury to the legal users of the water, 2) unreasonable effects to fish and wildlife, and 3) unreasonable effects to the overall economy of the counties from which the water is transferred, consistent with State law.