California Department of Water Resources
Division of Planning and Local Assistance   

Bulletin 160-98: California Water Plan

The California Water Code requires the Department to publish an update of the California Water Plan every five years. Bulletin 160-98 is the latest in a series of water plan updates. The previous update, Bulletin 160-93, was released in 1994.

The Bulletin 160 series evaluates water supplies and assesses agricultural, urban, and environmental water uses to quantify the gap between water supplies and uses. In response to public comments on Bulletin 160-93, the main focus of Bulletin 160-98 was to evaluate options for meeting the State's future water needs.

A public review draft of Bulletin 160-98 was released in January 1998, with a comment period extending through mid-April. This final version of the Bulletin incorporates public comments consistent with the Bulletin's goal of forecasting the most likely future conditions.

Portable Document Format Version (PDF)

Executive Summary
Volume 1
Volume 2

These files are available in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (pdf). If you do not have the Acrobat Reader, a free copy is available at the Adobe web site. These PDF files can be saved to your hard drive for future reference. Some of these files are very large and may take a long time to download.
 

Plain Text Version

Executive Summary
Volume 1
Volume 2

These text files are much smaller than their PDF counterparts and will take much less time to download. However, these files do not contain either photos or figures.
 

Purchasing information

Copies of Bulletin 160-98 may be purchased for $25 from: Make checks payable to: Department of Water Resources
(California residents add current sales tax.)

To request additional copies of the Bulletin, contact the Publications Office at (916) 653-1097.

Mail: Web Master

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This page was last updated: March 13, 2000.
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