The Kings County Water District Board approved hiring a new general manager a month after firing its long time manager of 12 years. The district hired Madalyn Vieira with an annual salary of $155,000 at its May 21 special board meeting. Vieira is expected to start on May 27. … Vieira founded Valley Water Strategies, a consulting firm that offers groundwater management support just this month, according to her LinkedIn. Before that, she was a water policy manager at 4Creeks, a Visalia-based construction and engineering firm, for nearly two years then a legal operations director for 11 months, according to her LinkedIn.