Water Use Harms: The Unintended Consequences of Beneficial Use This report [linked above] discusses Oregon’s need to assess and address the harms resulting from the beneficial use of water. The report supplements our recent review of water governance and management… Read More »Water Use Harms: the Unintended Consequences of Beneficial Use
We are fighting the future with its hands tied behind its back. For all intents and purposes, we are in a resource war with the future and it cannot stand up for itself. The quintessential “Silent Majority” are our future… Read More »Resolving Conflict With Our Future Selves
No, We’re Not There Yet:Modernizing the Conventional Wisdom A Review of Water Governance and Water Management Harmful water uses that don’t pay their way are not worth the damage those water uses cause to water sources. For example, large-scale irrigated… Read More »Modernize the Conventional Wisdom
The Beneficial Use of Water for Posterity The report [linked above] is the case for a new robust implementation and enforcement of the beneficial use of water in Oregon to ensure that the public interest is protected now and in… Read More »The Beneficial Use of Water for Posterity
What an enlightening conversation with Christopher Hall of The Water League!
Listen to the KSKQ “Age of Adventure” interview on water…as if your grandchildren depended on it!
Because the supply-side propaganda pushes meat consumption so relentlessly, and because it has support from state and federal governments and from corporate powerbrokers two to three degrees of separation away from CAFOs (fuel, tractor mechanics, grill makers, condiment sales, fast-food… Read More »Supine Lassitude is Draining Us Away
(Relegating Seniority to its legal boundaries) For the past year, Water League has been challenging Prior Appropriation, the antiquated 19th-century water use policy that has resulted in: These negative impacts have increased because humans export too much water from the natural environment for… Read More »Ending Prior Appropriation As We Know It
An open letter to Oregon state officials who are the fiduciary trustees of Oregon water that belongs to the public: May 15, 2023 Greetings: • Water Resource Commissioners Kihara, Lee, Moll, Quaempts, Reeves, Smitherman, and Wolfe; • Representatives Helm, Marsh,… Read More »Privatizing the Job of Water Trustee
tl;dr — Water League seeks to assert the Public Trust Doctrine to protect the hydrologic cycle for posterity. Water League is pressing the state to audit Water rights periodically to ensure the Water use established by Water right certificates is beneficial to… Read More »The Public Trust Doctrine, the Public Interest, and the Beneficial Use of Water