What is Healthy Rivers and Landscapes?
Healthy Rivers and Landscapes is a collaborative approach based on modern science to restore river health, floodplains, and natural landscapes, while supporting our fish, farms, wildlife, communities, and recreation sites.
Advancing Healthy Rivers and Landscapes means investing in a combination of flows integrated with on-the-ground habitat projects, creating multi-benefit water management strategies and state-wide policies that unite cities, communities, agriculture & conservationists in a way rarely seen in California.
By investing in sustainable actions across the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and the Bay-Delta watersheds, we can have:
Functional Flows
Contributing up to 825,000 acre-feet of water to support fish and wildlife when and where they need it the most
Learn MoreEssential Habitat
Restoring and creating essential habitat to support fish and wildlife during freshwater life stages and along migratory stopover sites
Learn MoreBenefitting People, Fish, and Wildlife from Redding to San Diego
Healthy Rivers and Landscapes will provide water security by balancing agricultural, urban and environmental needs, provide climate resilience through buffers against drought and floods, provide wildlife habitat, and provide a sustainable future for our working lands.
Hear from Real Californians Who Support HRL
Explore Our Video Library
Discover stories of restoration, conservation efforts, and the communities working together to protect our rivers and landscapes through our collection of videos.
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The Best Path Forward for California
Building a resilient Bay-Delta where rivers, farms, wildlife, and communities thrive.
A diverse coalition of 30 water agencies representing 32 million people supports this transformational, watershed-wide approach because it provides a sustainable future for native species that rely on healthy rivers and landscapes.
The following water agencies are MOU signatories and actively participating in the Healthy Rivers and Landscapes Program:
