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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 ...
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 ...
The largest of these contractors is the Westlands Water District, west of Fresno. “This water supply will assist growers in Westlands with putting the land to work to grow the food that feeds ...
October 28, 2022 at 12:57 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 ...
Westlands-Kesterson Timeline Deformed Duckling. 1952 - Westlands Water District is formed and would become the nation's largest water district, covering 600,000 acres; 1961 - United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) agrees to build San Luis Reservoir and a runoff drain that would benefit the Westlands
Parts of the CVP and SWP water supply the Westlands Water District of Fresno and Kings Counties, which irrigates up to 735,000 acres (297,000 ha) of land on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. Prior to the construction of San Luis Dam and the joint use portion of the California Aqueduct (the San Luis Canal) this area depended entirely on ...
The Westlands Water District Design Pilot Project in Fresno County will desalinate brackish groundwater from a local aquifer and use salt-tolerant plants to remove salts from the brine — the ...
Westlands spokesperson Elizabeth Jonasson said the agency recharged record amounts of water, nearly 162,000 acre-feet during the 2023 water year and around 200,000 acre-feet since then.