Actual Water Shortage Level

This table reports the monthly state standard shortage level by urban retail water suppliers, which are generally defined as agencies serving over 3,000 service connections or deliveries 3,000 acre-feet of water annually for municipal purposes. These data are collected by the State Water Resources Control Board through its monthly Conservation Reporting and the data included in this dataset represent a small component of the larger dataset. Information about these reports can be found on the Water Conservation Portal (https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/conservation_portal/conservation_reporting.html), which is no longer active, and the full data (which represents the source data for this dataset) are available on the California Open Data Portal (https://data.ca.gov/dataset/urws-conservation-supply-demand). Beginning in 2023, the reporting of these data transitioned to the SAFER Clearinghouse. *Data use limitations*: Prior to 2022, shortage levels were not standardized, which makes the data difficult to use. This dataset was filtered to include 2022 onwards where shortage levels are standardized.