Irvine Ranch Water District Showcases Careers in the Water IndustryWater Professionals Appreciation Week was established in 2017 by Senate Concurrent Resolution 80, by Sen. Bill Dodd (D-Napa). Recent labor studies estimate that 60,000 people work in California’s water industry and it needs roughly 6,000 new employees each year due to turnover. The water industry offers a wide variety of rewarding career opportunities in engineering, biology, finance, business administration, law, communications and many more types of positions in high-demand occupations.
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IRWD Reservoirs Boost Region’s Responsiveness to FiresCalifornia’s voracious wildfires require a rapid and aggressive response from fire crews.
Quite often, that means calling in fixed-wing and rotorcraft air attacks to combat challenging conflagrations by dropping water onto the flames.
Irvine Ranch Water District’s open reservoirs are continuously available and frequently used for these purposes.
Even when there is no blaze in sight, local firefighters and other emergency response teams practice their aerial attacks at IRWD reservoirs.
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