Part 1: Oregon County Faces Gas Industry Funding, Lobbyists in Battle to Halt Jordan Cove LNG Project
This Read the Dirt production was published by DeSmogBlog and Truthout. Scattered throughout Coos County, situated on Oregon’s southern coast, are signs [read more …]
Bottled Water Facility Stopped, Local Government Replaced
Editor’s Note: Citizens in Anacortes stopped what would have been North America’s largest bottled water facility. The locals engaged to vote out [read more …]
Washington State attempts to sell Columbia River water for $6 million
The appeal: state can’t sell rivers, favor corporate farms over family farms. By Rachael Paschal Osborn and Lee Bernheisel, NAIADS [read more …]
USA Refuses to Ban Atrazine
Editor’s Note: Atrazine is used in many herbicides in the USA. It is a known endocrine disruptor that reduces testosterone production and [read more …]
When Public Utility Districts Forget Who They Serve
Editor’s Note: Democracy, local Native culture, a Public Utility District and a dam are all converging in Okanogan County. Below is a [read more …]
Water Quality, Who Should Decide?
Editor’s Note: A written conversation between Read the Dirt editor Simon Davis-Cohen and John Osborn MD, Board President, Center for Environmental Law [read more …]
The Balancing Act: Exploring Water in the Skagit Basin
Photo: US Forest Service via Wikimedia Commons By Catherine Phelps, Intern, Center for Environmental Law and Policy Editor’s Note: If water is [read more …]
Water in the West: Diverse Tools for Conserving our Rivers and Communities
Photo: Trout Unlimited – Washington Water Project By: Szilvia Rideg, Project Associate, Trout Unlimited – Washington Water Project Nobody likes to see a [read more …]
Managing Many Waters the Walla Walla Way
Photo: Walla Walla Watershed Management Partnership By Cathy Schaeffer, Executive Director, Walla Walla Watershed Management Partnership Editor’s Note: An invaluable perspective on [read more …]
The Clean Water Act – A Story of Activism and Change
Photo: Courtesy of Puget Soundkeeper Alliance By Chris Wilke, Executive Director of Puget Soundkeeper Alliance and Pacific Regional Representative to the Waterkeeper [read more …]
Privatizing a Basic Human Right: Water
Photo: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons By Samuel Bliss Editor’s Note: One of our young and empowered voices—Samuel Bliss—gives us a run down [read more …]
A complicated situation: Lake Roosevelt and the Grand Coulee Dam
By Andy Dunau, Executive Director of the Lake Roosevelt Forum, President of Dunau Associates, Executive Director for the Spokane River Forum and [read more …]
Bottle the Skagit River?
By Sandra Spargo, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, The Alliance for Democracy Editor’s Note: Sandra Spargo, a dedicated citizen, clues [read more …]
One Step Back for Clean Water in the Boise River
By John Robison, Public Lands Director of Idaho Conservation League. Editor’s Note: The Boise River watershed is the source of drinking water [read more …]
If it Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It: Portland’s Water System
By Jeffrey Boly, one of the founders of the Friends of the Reservoirs, Neighborhood Association Board President and Westside leader of the [read more …]
Protecting Our Region From Hanford’s Spreading of Contamination and From Being Used (Again) as a National Radioactive Waste Dump
By Gerry Pollet, JD. Gerry Pollet is Executive Director of Heart of America Northwest, a 16,000 member citizens’ group which is widely [read more …]
New Gold Rush Threatens the West
By Gary Macfarlane, a native of the interior West. He graduated from Utah State University’s College of Natural Resources about 30 years [read more …]
America’s Antiquated Mining Policy
Photo: Miners operate a hydraulic sluice in San Francisquito Canyon, Los Angeles County, California between 1890 and 1900 (Wikimedia Commons). Editor’s note: [read more …]
Drinking Water in Bellingham and much of Whatcom County
An introduction to Lake Whatcom By April J. Markiewicz, Associate Director/Toxicologist II, Institute of Environmental Toxicology at Huxley College of the Environment, [read more …]
Thurston County Hydrologic Cycle
Editor’s Note: The graph above documents the highest rainfall event for the given years at the Olympia, WA airport. By Nadine Romero, [read more …]
River Watch-Thomas Creek
By Christine Woodward, Director of Natural Resources, Samish Indian Nation Thomas Creek is a tributary to the Samish River in Skagit County [read more …]
Water Wealth
By Rick Glenn The 20th century was an era of tremendous economic growth in the United States. Horses were replaced by automobiles, [read more …]
River Watch-The Teanaway
Restoring Flows and Fish in the Teanaway River Since 1999, Washington Water Trust (WWT) has been quietly restoring stream flows in the [read more …]
Why Conserve Water in the Pacific Northwest?
By Janet Nazy, Executive Director, Partnership for Water Conservation We live in the rainy Pacific Northwest. Water is plentiful so why conserve [read more …]
Articles On Water
Water: Water
- May 2 Part 1: Oregon County Faces Gas Industry Funding, Lobbyists in Battle to Halt Jordan Cove LNG Project
- Dec 8 Bottled Water Facility Stopped, Local Government Replaced
- Nov 8 Washington State attempts to sell Columbia River water for $6 million
- Aug 8 USA Refuses to Ban Atrazine
- Aug 8 When Public Utility Districts Forget Who They Serve
- Jul 8 Water Quality, Who Should Decide?
- Jan 14 The Balancing Act: Exploring Water in the Skagit Basin
- Jun 30 Water in the West: Diverse Tools for Conserving our Rivers and Communities
- May 20 Managing Many Waters the Walla Walla Way
- Mar 19 The Clean Water Act – A Story of Activism and Change
- Mar 2 Privatizing a Basic Human Right: Water
- Feb 17 A complicated situation: Lake Roosevelt and the Grand Coulee Dam
- Feb 10 Bottle the Skagit River?
- Nov 20 One Step Back for Clean Water in the Boise River
- Nov 13 If it Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It: Portland’s Water System
- Oct 15 Protecting Our Region From Hanford’s Spreading of Contamination and From Being Used (Again) as a National Radioactive Waste Dump
- Sep 15 New Gold Rush Threatens the West
- Jun 2 America’s Antiquated Mining Policy
- Mar 15 Drinking Water in Bellingham and much of Whatcom County
- Nov 26 Thurston County Hydrologic Cycle
- Nov 14 River Watch-Thomas Creek
- Nov 11 Water Wealth
- Oct 21 River Watch-The Teanaway
- Oct 21 Why Conserve Water in the Pacific Northwest?
