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The Nebraska edition of the April Irrigation Leader is here! In this month’s cover story, we look at how the Lower Elkhorn Natural Resources District is responding to the devastating floods that affected its service area in 2019. In our conversation with General Manager Brian Bruckner and Assistant General Manager Curt Becker, we do a deep dive into the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Watershed Flood Prevention Operations program and learn how the district is using it. https://bit.ly/4cd3bOy #IrrigationLeader #Irrigation #NebraskaWater #NebraskaIrrigation #NRDs

Check out our article on El Paso Water : a desal pioneer 500 miles from the sea now spearheads direct potable reuse from our April issue. Population growth and the overpumping of groundwater led El Paso, Texas, to take an early, proactive approach to finding alternative sources of water. In 2007, it completed the largest inland desalination plant in the country, with a capacity of 27 million gallons per day (MGD), to treat the vast amounts of brackish water contained in the Hueco Bolson aquifer. Now, El Paso is taking the lead again by building a plant for the direct potable reuse of municipal wastewater. In this interview, Scott Reinert, the water resources manager at El Paso Water (EPWater), tells Municipal Water Leader how the agency is leading the charge to find alternative sources to ensure long-term water security in a water-scarce world. https://bit.ly/446N1UL #MunicipalWaterLeader #MunicipalWater #Desalination #ElPasoWater #TexasWater #PotableReuse #WaterResources

The Montana edition of the April Irrigation Leader is here! Brothers Reed and Thane Tobol are members of the third generation of their family to run their farm, and they’re constantly looking for new ways to improve it. In addition to their wide range of professional pursuits—Reed is an auctioneer, and both brothers are pilots and run a trucking company—they look far and wide for inspiration to improve their farm, even flying to central Washington to observe university-based research seed plots. Moreover, they work hard to raise community awareness of the significance of agriculture. https://bit.ly/429s8pr #IrrigationLeader #Irrigation #MontanaWater #MontanaIrrigation #MontanaAgriculture #Farming

The Arizona edition of the April Irrigation Leader is here! This month’s cover story is a detailed interview with Ronald Allison, the general manager of the Gila River Indian Irrigation and Drainage District, and David DeJong, the director of the Pima-Maricopa Irrigation Project, two agencies directly involved in building out and operating the irrigation infrastructure of the Gila River Indian Community. We hear from them about the final stages of constructing a system that will be able to convey water to up to 90,000 acres as well as work on managed aquifer recharge, solar-over-canal systems, canal lining and piping, and more. https://bit.ly/42b0EzO #IrrigationLeader #Irrigation #GilaRiver #ArizonaWater #ArizonaIrrigation

Check out our article on OceanWell Water and the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District partnering to pioneer subsea desalination from our April issue. Whenever a major desalination project is considered, the most significant challenges are energy costs and brine disposal. A new technology pioneered by OceanWell Water—subsea reverse osmosis (SRO)—promises to change that: By moving the reverse osmosis (RO) process into the ocean itself at a depth of 400 meters (1,312 feet), it makes use of the natural hydrostatic pressure of the surrounding water and produces a much less concentrated brine. This ingenious technology holds great potential for Southern California municipalities that are largely dependent on drought-vulnerable State Water Project (SWP) supplies. One of these is the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District (LVMWD), which is entering into a public-private partnership to turn OceanWell’s concepts into an operational reality, with possible long-term benefits for Southern California, the Colorado River basin, and the world. https://bit.ly/42dIw8o #MunicipalWaterLeader #MunicipalWater #OceanWell #Desalination #WaterResources

The April issue of Irrigation Leader is here! United States Senator James Risch of Idaho has long been known as a western water champion. In our cover interview this month, we speak with him about recent legislation and the biggest issues affecting water use and management in the West. https://bit.ly/4iPyelU #IrrigationLeader #Irrigation #WesternWater #WaterManagement #WaterPolicy

The April edition of Municipal Water Leader is here! Everyone involved in desalination knows that energy costs and brine disposal are among the process’s top challenges. But what if those issues could be solved? That is the promise of OceanWell ’s subsea reverse osmosis technology, which uses the natural hydrostatic pressure of the ocean to carry out desalination underwater and discharge heavily diluted brine that poses no risk to aquatic life. OceanWell has entered a public-private partnership with Southern California’s Las Virgenes Municipal Water District to pilot this exciting technology. https://bit.ly/3Rtt3Mq #MunicipalWaterLeader #MunicipalWater #OceanWell #Desalination #WaterResources

Check out our article on from skateboards to center pivots: Shark Wheel reinvents age-old wheel technology for agriculture from our March issue. Shark Wheel’s cofounders were featured on the hit television show Shark Tank, kickstarting their skateboard and longboard wheels. After 5 years of R&D, Shark Wheel Agriculture was launched in 2023 to bring innovation to an industry that needed a significantly improved airless tire solution. On the first test run, the Shark Wheel, which mimics nature’s most efficient form of motion, the sine wave, showed best-in-industry rutting performance. Now, there are thousands of Shark Wheels on pivots rolling in farming fields around the world. In this interview, CEO and Cofounder Zack Fleishman tells Irrigation Leader how Shark Wheel has checked all the boxes for center-pivot irrigation tire needs with a design that will minimize ruts, never go flat, and flex to protect machinery. https://bit.ly/4iX7jV5 #IrrigationLeader #Irrigation #SharkWheel #AgricultureTech #IrrigationTech #IrrigatedAg

Water Strategies is hosting a free Grant Writing Webinar on Wednesday, May 14th with Sarah Pruden of Rubicon Water. If you'd like to learn more about grant writing and how that knowledge can be applied to your organization's needs, contact Kris Polly at [email protected] or 703-517-3962. We hope you can join us! Register here: https://lnkd.in/gHHYiAnS

Check out our article on M8 Systems: automated irrigation solutions in California's Central Valley from our March issue. When an avocado farmer told Max Safai that he was looking for a way to automatically detect leaks in his drip lines, Mr. Safai put his deep background in technology to work to solve the problem. In 2019, he founded M8 Systems to deliver an expanding range of irrigation automation solutions to growers in California’s Central Valley. In this interview, Mr. Safai and M8 Senior Advisor Gary Conover talk with Irrigation Leader about the company’s cloud-based solutions. https://bit.ly/4kTwo5f #IrrigationLeader #Irrigation #M8Systems #CaliforniaIrrigation #DripIrrigation