Register for Central Valley Tour to Explore Water Challenges in Key Agricultural Region
Spend an afternoon touring the region virtually and participating in a live Q&A with experts
Grab your ticket for our Nov. 19 Central Valley Tour to explore water supply challenges in the San Joaquin Valley, one of the nation’s most productive agricultural regions. You’ll hear from farmers, water managers, disadvantaged communities and others about how they’re meeting those challenges.
During this three-hour online event
starting at 2:30 p.m., we’ll take you deep into the San Joaquin
Valley to hear how farmers manage surface water for various crops
and orchards, and how they are responding to mandates under the
state’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. You’ll hear from
the valley’s disadvantaged communities and learn how
subsidence from groundwater pumping is affecting surface water
facilities. You’ll visit key infrastructure, including San Luis
Reservoir, Friant Dam and the Friant-Kern Canal. You also learn
about managed wetlands, see a unique feature to one of the
region’s rim dams, and hear about efforts to put water back
in the ground. Get tickets here!
A limited number of need-based scholarships are available for the tours. Contact Nick Gray at ngray@watereducation.org for more information.
The Central Valley Tour is one of two remaining virtual tours being offered this fall to explore the vital role water plays in California’s economy, its environment and its communities. All tours will run from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m., taking you close to key water facilities, farms and environmental restoration projects and giving you a chance to talk with experts during a live Q&A following each video tour.
San Joaquin River Restoration Tour: Dec. 10
Join us
on our Dec.
10 San
Joaquin River Restoration Tour to examine one
of the nation’s largest and most expensive river restoration
projects. The project is aimed at restoring flows to a 60-mile,
mostly dry stretch of river to revive chinook salmon runs while
reducing or avoiding adverse water supply impacts to farmers. See
hard-to-reach sections of the river and hear from biologists and
farmers about the progress and challenges involved in bringing
salmon back to the San Joaquin River.
