Water rights explorer

Every watershed, every county, and every purpose class on one sortable table for the water year you choose: rights located, rights reporting, reported water, exercisable face value, and the share of that face value the reports amount to. Click a row to open its year-by-year chart.

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Sources. State Water Resources Control Board, eWRIMS Water Rights List (2025-08-05) and Water Use Reported (2025-08-26). Each right is located in the watershed and county of its first point of diversion.

Reading the table. Reported water is the best available figure (reported use, then reported diversion) summed over the rights that filed for that year after screening; the tier mix column shows how much of it came from use reports. Face value is a paper ceiling for exercisable rights, whether or not they filed. Hydropower and most environmental use is pass-through and is never added to a consumptive total. Full rules: definitions .

Figures for an individual right, its holder, filings, and flags are available to authorized users on the rights drill-down.

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