Informing and educating the public and water community about water issues in Kern County.
The WAKC is a non-profit business association, funded by voluntary memberships and donations/grants from organizations and individuals interested in the economic, recreational, and conservation benefits of sound water management and development. Membership is open to anyone wishing to support the important educational efforts of the association.
Kern Water News
Kern County Growers Meeting on Irrigated Lands highlights importance of issue
The Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program (ILRP) will impact almost every grower in Kern County through regulation of discharge of irrigation water to the groundwater basin. On Tuesday, May 15, the Water Association of Kern County, Kern County Farm Bureau, legal representatives, water experts and farm industry representatives met to discuss the impact of this program on Kern farming, where this regulatory process is headed and Kern County’s options for participation. About 200 growers and water district representatives attended.
Speakers included Ernest Conant, water attorney for Young Wooldridge, John Schaap, project manger at Provost & Pritchard Consulting Group and Gail Delihant, Director of Governmental Affairs for Western Growers Association. More meetings to provide growers information about this issue will be scheduled in the future.
For more information contact Beth Pandol at the Water Association of Kern County, 661-746-3300.
Link to the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board
Fact sheet on regional water quality control boards.
To see the information provided at the meeting see the links below:
 Presentation by John Schaap | 1952 Kb |
| Presentation by Ernest Conant | 164 Kb |
| Presentation by Gail Delihant | 641 Kb |
May's featured crop - blueberries
Blueberries are an up and coming crop in Kern County. The Water Association was on KERO's morning show this week, talking about blueberries and how important water is to grow them. It takes 3 acre-feet of water to grow an acre of blueberries. See the KERO segment here. Thanks to Munger Farms in Delano for providing the blueberries to us and the U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council for its help.
