Assistance program
Snow Survey and Water Supply Forecasting
$3.8 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Natural Resources Conservation Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Dissemination of Technical Information
- CFDA number
- 10.907
- What it does
- To provide reliable, accurate, and timely forecasts of surface water supply to water users and water managers in the West. To efficiently obtain, manage, and disseminate high quality data and information on snow, water, climate, and hydrologic conditions. To provide climate data to support NRCS conservation planning tools.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Federal and state, including public institutions of higher education, including those located in U.S. Territories.
- Authorized by
- 16 U.S.C. § 590a-f
- Program site
- https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/ ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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