The Trump administration has announced that two key California reservoir projects will receive $315 million in federal funding to help the state store more water in wet years to reduce shortages in dry years. The administration is investing the money toward the costs of constructing the massive new Sites Reservoir, proposed for Colusa County about 70 miles north of Sacramento, and to raise the height of the dam at San Luis Reservoir, along Highway 152 east of Gilroy, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said in a news release Tuesday. But there’s fine print in the deal that the agency didn’t explain. Trump isn’t providing any new federal money for either project.

Other water and natural resource project funding news:

• ABC10 (Sacramento, Calif.): Sites Reservoir, Harvest Water Project could get big funding boost
• KRCR (Redding, Calif.): Trump administration releases $315.5 million for state water projects
• Daily Kos: Blog: Governor Gavin Newsom praises Trump for release of $315 million for Sites and San Luis reservoirs
• Arizona Republic (Phoenix): Trump’s funding freeze muddies water outlook on the drought-stricken Colorado River
• Inside Climate News: Questions and confusion as Trump pauses key funding for shrinking Colorado River
• Colorado Public Radio: Trump dismantled a first-of-its-kind nature report. Colorado scientists are still hopeful it will be released
• The Colorado Sun (Denver): $1.2M awarded to help replace thirsty grass, leaky sprinklers in Colorado
• Idyllwild Town Crier (Calif.): IWD encounters “snag” in wastewater treatment plant funding