Once a Skeptic: A Grower, Pilot, and Water Leader Finds Operational Confidence July 23,...
By Jackie Miller
Few people track the weather more closely than farmers and pilots. Okay, and reservoir operators. Randy Fiorini has been all three. As...
The Hidden Costs of Equipment Theft and How to Prevent Them July 22, 2025
Special to WaterWrights.net by Jonathan Ratledge
In agriculture and water management, the loss of equipment to theft is more than just an inconvenience — it’s...
Security Solutions July 16, 2025
Special to WaterWrights.net
Expansion Projects = Prime Targets for Theft
Whether you’re breaking ground on a new facility, expanding your operations, or undergoing a major renovation,...
Framework from a Forecast: How the Rice Commission Moved from Reacting to Strategizing with...
By Jackie Miller
Over the past several years, as headlines swung between drought and abundance, El Niño and La Niña, the California rice industry often...
GOOD NEWS FOR CALIFORNIA WATER? July 2, 2025
By Charles Carner, HPC/WellJet®
Everyone who didn’t graduate from the Zohran Mamdani School of Economics knows that California water policies have been largely insane and...
From Water Budgets to Energy Bills: Tom Neisler’s CAP Advantage June 17, 2025
By Jackie Miller
Tom Neisler, General Manager of Tehachapi-Cummings County Water District, stood before his board with a bold operations plan based on a 35%...
Forecast-Driven Farming: How Nichols Farms Turned Data into Decisions June 3, 2025
By Jackie Miller
Before a single pump kicked on, one pistachio grower was already making high-stakes decisions.
A new infrastructure project. A revised fungicide plan. An...
Beating the Lag: How Stockton East Took Charge of the Water Year May 20,...
By Jackie Miller
For water managers in California, the gap between real-time conditions and the metrics that dictate operations can be a source of real...
How the Agriculture Community Can Team Up to Stop Equipment Theft May 13, 2025
By Nicole Wojtkiewicz, special to WaterWrights.net
Be sure to stop by Booth #202 at the Spring ACWA Conference in
Monterey May 13-15th.
Agricultural equipment theft is...
How a Forecast, a Booth Visit, and a Big Decision Changed the Game for...
By Jackie Miller
In the fall of 2023, Tulare Irrigation District’s General Manager Aaron Fukuda sat in a packed session at the ACWA conference, listening...
