Columbia River Watershed
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Water Scarcity  &  Climate

        Water Issues
            Exempt Wells - Kittitas County
            Exempt Wells - Five Corners Family Farmers
            Exempt Wells - the Stockwatering Loophole
            Exempt Wells - Conference Proceedings
            Water Mining:  Odessa Aquifer
            Water Mining: Washington State University & the
                Grande Ronde Aquifer
            Columbia River Treaty:  Past & Possible Futures
            Federal Reserved Water Rights
            Municipal Water Law
            Metering Water Use

        Water & Litigation
            Restoring Spokane Falls
            U.S. Bureau of Reclamation - Grand Coulee Dam
            Washington State University - Grande Ronde Aquifer
            Municipal Water Law
            Water Metering
            Curbing Water Waste:  Quad City Enforcement

        Columbia River & Grand Coulee Dam 
            Expanding the Columbia Project
            Proposed Weber Siphon
            World Commission on Dams -
                USA:  Grand Coulee Dam & Columbia River Basin

        New Dams

            Similkameen River - Shankers Bend High Dam
            Crab Creek Dam
            Hawk Creek Dam
            Black Rock Dam (shelved)

        Columbia River & Science
            National Academies of Science - 
                Managing the Columbia River:  Instream Flows,         
                Water Withdrawals, and Salmon Survival

        Columbia River & Ethics
            Pastoral Letter - The Columbia River Watershed:  
                Caring for Creation and the Common Good

        Columbia River & History
            1804 Lewis & Clark
            1864 Northern Pacific Land Grant
            1872 Mining Law’s toxic legacy
            1889-1890 State Boundaries
            1891 National Forests
            1933 Era of Dam Building




    
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Salmon jumping Kettle Falls before Grand Coulee Dam (Museum of Arts & Culture archive)

Grand Coulee Dam (U.S. Bureau of Reclamation photo)

Irrigation systems, ground water pumping - Odessa Subarea (John Osborn photo)

Melissa Bates, Aqua Permanente (John Osborn photo)

Earth Rise from the moon  (NASA photo)

Mt. Adams - snowpack (John Osborn photo)