Historical Expenditures and Current and Future Funding Needs

This document supports information contained in the California Water Plan Update 2018. The purpose of this document is to provide a description of California’s water resources management historical expenditures and the existing funding needs in the State. The historical expenditure data includes capital and ongoing public agencies’ (State, local, and Federal agencies) historical expenditures. Historical expenditure data is organized by management action type and water sectors. In this document, capital management actions include infrastructure development, repair, replacement or rehabilitation. Ongoing actions include planning, data management, tracking and reporting, operations, and maintenance. Historical expenditure data is provided for State fiscal year 2005/2006 (2006) to 2014/2015 (2015). This timeframe was selected due to data availability at the local, State, and Federal levels. This document also provides information on the accrued interest on debt from State general obligation (GO) bonds. 

This document provides information pertaining to the projected existing water management funding needs and existing water management funding gap. Projected water management funding need was estimated from planned and proposed management actions collected from State, local, and Federal agencies. 

Historical expenditure and funding need information is used in the California Water Plan Update 2018 to provide context and data for inclusion into the funding analysis, described in the Funding Scenario Analysis supporting document.