Building on years of progress, Governor Gavin Newsom today announced that California is advancing the state’s Sites Reservoir project with an additional $268.9 million funding increase from the California Water Commission — strengthening long-term water storage and helping prepare for a hotter, drier future. … Sites Reservoir is a key component of the Governor’s water strategy and will capture water from the Sacramento River during wet seasons and store it for use during drier seasons – holding up to 1.5 million acre-feet of water, enough to supply over 4.5 million homes for a year. … With this additional funding, the Sites Project is eligible for a total of $1.363 billion in Water Storage Investment Program (WSIP) funding from Proposition 1 and Proposition 4.