in january 2014, after the moderately dry year of 2012 and the record california drought of 2013, the department of water resources announced that the swp would be making zero deliveries that year, the first time in the project's history, due to dangerously low snowpack and reservoir levels. on april 18, 2014, the department of water resources increased the swp allocation back to five percent and that level remained until the initial allocation for 2015 was give on december 1, 2014.