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October 28, 2022 at 3:57 PM. The makeup of the Westlands Water District board will change this election — shifting power to a coalition of growers with a list of new actions, at the top of which ...
Some Bee colleagues and I recently took a tour of Westlands Water District — the nation’s largest agricultural water district, located on the western edges of Fresno and Kings counties.. The ...
Westlands Water District is a water district in central California, a local-government entity formed in 1952, that holds long-term contracts for water supplied by the Central Valley Project and the California State Water Project . It is the largest agricultural water district in the United States by irrigable acres and provides water primarily ...
That will capture 130,000 acre-feet of new water — some of which will flow to Valley farmers as part of the Central Valley Project. Among those to get supplied is the Westlands Water District ...
The Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge was an artificial wetland environment, created using agricultural runoff from farmland in California 's Central Valley . The irrigation water is transported to the valley from sources in the Sierra Nevada via the California Aqueduct. Minerals from these sources are carried in the water and concentrated by ...
Delta Conveyance Project, formerly known as California Water Fix and Eco Restore or the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, is a $15 billion plan proposed by Governor Jerry Brown and the California Department of Water Resources to build a 36 foot diameter tunnel to carry fresh water from the Sacramento River southward under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to Bethany Reservoir for use by the State ...
Commentary by Westlands Water District general manager: Farmers rely on Westlands to deliver water, so we must lead in conservation and sustainability.
Shasta Dam (called Kennett Dam [3] before its construction) is a concrete arch-gravity dam [4] across the Sacramento River in Northern California in the United States. At 602 feet (183 m) high, it is the eighth-tallest dam in the United States. Located at the north end of the Sacramento Valley, Shasta Dam creates Shasta Lake for long-term water ...