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Kansas Water Office pushes certified irrigation assessments to target measurable water savings
Summary
Weston McCrary of the Kansas Water Office briefed the Committee on Water about the WISE program and the Certified Irrigation System Assessment (CISA/ISA), reporting 132 recent assessments and 230+ since 2021 to better target cost-share dollars and improve irrigation 'water duty.'
Weston McCrary, director-level presenter at the Kansas Water Office, told the Committee on Water that the state's Water Innovation Systems and Education (WISE) program has converted legacy farm technology efforts into a system of standardized field evaluations intended to focus cost-share dollars on measurable water savings.
McCrary described the Certified Irrigation System Assessment (CISA or ISA) as the program's baseline tool. "We're going to use a system evaluation to find where we need to put the cost share dollars instead of just putting them out there and letting a producer say ... I'm gonna go put it into soil moisture probes," McCrary said, arguing assessments improve fiduciary outcomes for public funds.
He gave recent results: the office has "completed a 132 of these…
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