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Lords Lake About Water Use Efficiency

  • Provides expertise to local agencies and individuals regarding agricultural and urban water and energy conservation, reclamation and reuse of water, land and water use, and drainage management.

  • Manages the California Irrigation Management Information System (CIMIS) by collecting weather data from over 120 stations and disseminating calculated reference evapotranspiration (ETo) to assist landscape and crop managers irrigate efficiently.

  • Assists in establishing mobile laboratories that conduct irrigation system evaluations.

  • Carries out data analysis, demonstration projects, and research to achieve energy and water use efficiency.

  • Provides loans and grants to make more efficient use of water and energy resources.