2025 Agricultural Water Management Plan Guidebook (Draft)

The 2025 Agricultural Water Management Plan Guidebook (Guidebook) was prepared by DWR to assist agricultural water suppliers in understanding and complying with the requirements of the Agricultural Water Management Planning Act (Division 6, Part 2.8 of the California Water Code), the Agricultural Water Measurement Regulation (Title 23, Division 2, Chapter 5.1, Article 2 of the California Code of Regulations), and AB 1668 Water Management Planning (Friedman, Statute of 2018).

This Guidebook is intended to clearly identify information and elements required by the California Water Code (Water Code), provide guidance on how Agricultural Water Suppliers can address these requirements, and identify potential additional information Agricultural Water Suppliers can include in order to develop plans that are useful for their own operations and management and to improve long-term system reliability.

This Guidebook also describes how Water Conservation Plans (WCPs) submitted to the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), and Urban Water Management Plans (UWMPs) submitted to DWR, can be supplemented to satisfy the Water Code and Agricultural Water Measurement Regulation requirements.