California water regulators formally unveiled a revamped online depository for water rights records Tuesday as they try to get a better handle on how water is divided up and used in the state. The State Water Resources Control Board showcased a new online portal at its Tuesday meeting that aims to be a one-stop shop for individual water rights holders in the state to report their annual use and for regulators — and the public — to see who has a right to how much water and where. The portal includes digitized copies of documents that are sometimes over a century old and were previously only accessible in an in-person vault.

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