Western Municipal Water District
Derek Kawaii has a diverse work experience spanning over several companies and roles. Derek began their career in 1989 as an Assistant Civil Engineer at East Bay Municipal Utility District, where they designed water distribution systems and led capital improvement projects. In 2000, they worked as a Project Manager at Framfab USA, where they designed internet business solutions and managed teams. Kawaii also served as a Project Manager at Framfab and Institute for the Future, where they managed teams and developed online strategy planning workshops. From 2002 to 2004, they worked as a Senior Engineer at Exponent, performing engineering analysis and delivering expert witness testimony in litigation cases. Derek then held roles as a Project Manager at Associated Engineers and Senior Engineer at Boyle Engineering, where they designed engineering improvements for land development projects and managed CAD drafters and assistant engineers. In 2005, they joined the Western Municipal Water District as the Director of Engineering, overseeing infrastructure viability and setting engineering policies and procedures. Additionally, they worked as a University Extension Instructor at the University of California, Riverside from 2008 to 2010.
Derek Kawaii pursued their education at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1984 to 1989, they obtained a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering. Later, they pursued a Master's degree in the same field and attended the University of California, Berkeley again, from 1992 to 1993.
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Western Municipal Water District
Providing reliable drinking water to our customers on a daily basis is fundamental to what we do. Western works to secure your water supply for the future as well as today. It takes engineering, infrastructure, responsible management and strategic governance to ensure the roughly 35 billion gallons of water we provide to nearly 1 million people in western Riverside County is safe, reliable and the highest quality 365 days a year. Western Municipal Water District (Western) was formed in 1954, and today provides reliable water and wastewater services to retail customers and wholesale agencies from Corona to Temecula. As a member agency of Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the state’s largest water supplier, Western receives most of its water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta and from the Colorado River. Western supplies water on both a wholesale (eight agencies) and a retail basis (23,000 connections) to a region stretching 527-square miles in western Riverside County with an assessed valuation of $83 billion, and a population of nearly 1 million people. This regional area includes the cities of Corona, Norco and Riverside and the water agencies serving Box Springs, Eagle Valley, Lake Elsinore, Lee Lake and Temecula. We are governed by a five-person Board of Directors, elected to four-year terms by registered voters in the five election divisions. Western is securing your water supply for today and tomorrow.