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State Water Resources Control Board rolls out Cal Waters; users must create accounts and link records with new PINs
Summary
The State Water Resources Control Board’s Division of Water Rights gave a public demonstration of Cal Waters, the new statewide water-rights reporting system, and urged right‑holders to create accounts and migrate records with PINs; annual-reporting deadlines remain unchanged and staff say they will work with users who try to comply.
The State Water Resources Control Board’s Division of Water Rights on Friday walked users through Cal Waters, a rebuilt online system for filing annual water‑use reports and accessing digitized water‑rights records. Jeff Parks, the division’s senior engineer and product owner for Cal Waters, said account creation is required for users who will file directly and recommended agents or organizations set up users appropriately.
Parks said the Board mailed about 12,000 letters containing one-time PINs to individual water‑right holders to link their previous records to the new system. "This PIN is different; it is not the same PIN that you received in the past," Parks said, explaining a single Cal Waters PIN links all records associated with an individual rather than issuing separate credentials per water right.
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