Volume 17 Issue 3 March
Fratco has been in the pipe business for well over 100 years, but it has done an excellent job of keeping current with the times. With its earliest roots in clay pipe, the company rapidly transitioned to plastic in the 1960s, and today, it offers corrugated polyolefin…
Volume 17 Issue 3 March
The Verde Ditch Company has been serving farms and residential properties since the mid-1860s. In our conversation with two of its commissioners, Linda Buchanan and Al Dupuy, we learn about its history, its infrastructure, and the modernization work…
Volume 17 Issue 3 March
The Grass Valley French Ditch Company has been supplying water to users near Missoula, Montana, for more than 120 years. In that time, and particularly in recent years, its service area has shifted away from agriculture and ranching and toward residential…
Volume 17 Issue 3 March
In our cover interview with Galen Wittrock, the general manager of the South Platte Natural Resources District, we learn how the district and its users are working to preserve, recharge, and prudently use the groundwater that provides 95 percent of the region’s irrigation…
Volume 17 Issue 3 March
In our cover interview with Eugene Jiron, the governor of the Pueblo of Isleta, we learn about the fundamental importance of the Rio Grande, which traverses the pueblo’s reservation, for its people’s agriculture and way of life. The pueblo is tackling the challenge…
Volume 17 Issue 3 March
In this month’s issue, we speak with two New Zealand leaders who have previously appeared in the magazine, Keri Johnston and Andrew Mockford. After 10 years as the chair of trade group Irrigation New Zealand, Ms. Johnston, a natural resources engineer at…
Volume 17 Issue 3 March
In this month’s issue, we interview both the incoming and the outgoing presidents of the Washington State Water Resources Association (WSWRA). John O’Callaghan, the secretary-manager of the South Columbia Basin Irrigation District, has led the…
Volume 17 Issue 3 March
In our cover story this month, we speak with Jerry Dart, the president of the Wyoming Water Association, an organization “for everyone who loves water”—including agricultural producers, municipalities, businesses, government agencies, nongovernmental…
Volume 17 Issue 2 February
In our cover story this month, we learn about an ambitious proposal with huge potential benefits: the raising of Pine Flat Dam, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers facility on the Kings River in Central California. David Merritt, the general manager of…
Volume 17 Issue 2 February
In our cover story this month, we speak with a man who seems to know everything about Arizona water: Richard Morrison. Mr. Morrison’s family has long experience in Arizona agriculture and in leadership in industry associations and education, and he…