by Editor | Mar 21, 2014 | WA State DOE, WA State News, War on the West, Water Issues
Matthew Weaver | Capital Press Published: March 19. 2014 9:23AM The Washington Department of Ecology is developing an instream flow rule to protect water in the Spokane River. There’s supposed to be little impact to agriculture, according to the department,...
by Editor | Mar 18, 2014 | Accountability, EPA, Govt Agencies, WA State DOE, Water Issues
The Whatcom Excavator Posted 3/18/2014 In the dark of night, while most folks were sleeping – oblivious – a piece of legislation that only had its “first reading” in Olympia twelve days ago passed by a vote of 93-5. This little slip of a...
by Editor | Mar 18, 2014 | War on the West, Water Issues
By Kendra Alleyne | for CNS News July 26, 2012 (CNSNews.com) – A rural Oregon man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail and over $1,500 in fines because he had three reservoirs on his property to collect and use rainwater. Gary Harrington of Eagle Point, Ore.,...
by Editor | Mar 3, 2014 | Water Issues
By MIKE JOHNSTON senior writer | Daily Record News Posted: Friday, February 14, 2014 1:55 pm A measure that would have helped county governments fund water-right bank programs for rural home development has died in Olympia. Counties in the state with restrictions on...
by Editor | Feb 17, 2014 | WA State News, War on the West, Water Issues
Posted 2/16/2014 Daily Sun News Yakima, WA – Water supply and water quality are at the forefront of Yakima County’s plans for 2014. That’s according to Yakima County Commissioner Rand Elliott, the featured speaker Wednesday morning for the Sunnyside Daybreak...
by Editor | Jan 31, 2014 | Govt Agencies, War on the West, Water Issues
By Charles C. W. CookeNational Review Posted 1/31/2014 San Joaquin Valley, Calif. — “We have the greatest factory anywhere on earth,” Harris Farms’ executive vice president, William Bourdeau, tells me, as our car bumps rapidly along the dirty, uneven track. “These are...
