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Oregon’s problems with blue-green algae have spread to another lake. State officials have issued a health advisory for Upper Klamath Lake. It’s in southern Oregon, west of Klamath Falls.
Toxins from blue-green algae can be harmful to humans and animals.
In the affected areas of Klamath Lake, visitors should avoid swimming and activities such as water skiing or power boating. Toxins are not absorbed through the skin, but people with skin sensitivities may experience a puffy red rash at the […]
Continue reading Health Advisory Issued For Upper Klamath Lake Due To Algae Bloom
The Oregon Health Authority has identified 41 water systems in the state at risk for toxic algae blooms similar to those responsible for Salem’s drinking water advisory.
The systems include cities, businesses, schools and various water districts that draw from surface waters with a history of algae blooms.
Most draw from the same Oregon river basins: the Rogue, Umpqua, Clackamas, McKenzie, Santiam and upper Willamette.
The state’s increased focus on algal toxins comes in […]
Continue reading State identifies dozens of systems at risk for toxic algae blooms
May 29th, 2018 | Category: Columbia River, Featured Posts, Legal, News, Oregon, Protection, Rights of Nature, Surface Water, United States, Washington | MAY 28, 2018, BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fox Q13
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Talks are scheduled to begin this week in Washington, D.C., to modernize the document that coordinates flood control and hydropower generation in the United States and Canada along the 1,200-mile Columbia River.
Northwest politicians have been pushing for years to renegotiate the Columbia River Treaty between the two countries. The lawmakers are particularly keen to eliminate a so-called “Canadian […]
Continue reading Talks to revise the Columbia River Treaty with Canada to begin Tuesday
May 28th, 2018 | Category: Bottled Water, California, Featured Posts, Groundwater, Legal, Nestlé, News, Privatization, Protection, Surface Water, United States | Jane Braxton Little High Country News
May 28, 2018
Mount Shasta reigns over Siskiyou County, a commanding presence even when cloaked in clouds. The snow on its flanks percolates into a vast underground aquifer of volcanic tunnels and bubbling springs. Steeped in legend and celebrated for its purity, Shasta water is almost as mysterious as its namesake California mountain. Little is known about how much is actually stored there or how it moves through […]
Continue reading Below Mt. Shasta, a fight burbles over bottled water
May 12th, 2018 | Category: California, Featured Posts, Legal, News, Oregon, Protection, Rights of Nature, Southern Oregon, Surface Water, United States | BY RYAN SABALOW AND DALE KASLER
rsabalow@sacbee.com
May 11, 2018 11:20 AM
Sacramento Bee
The last time water was this scarce in the Klamath Basin, a rugged agricultural area straddling the California-Oregon border, farmers clashed with U.S. marshals and opened locked canal gates with blowtorches so they could irrigate. Nearly 10,000 agriculture activists from around the U.S. later converged on the region to hold symbolic “bucket brigade” protests.
Months of unrest ended after then-Vice President Dick […]
Continue reading Can an uneasy truce hold off another water rebellion on California’s northern border? Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article210634429.html#storylink=cpy
Walla Walla Union Bulletin
Andy Porter
Mar 20, 2018 A controversial request to allow water bottling on agricultural lands in Walla Walla County took a step ahead Monday. Walla Walla County commissioners voted unanimously to have the application by former county commissioner Perry Dozier move to the final docket of proposed amendments to the county’s Comprehensive Plan and development regulations. However, commissioners noted the application will not be part of the county’s Comprehensive Plan update due at the […]
Continue reading Walla Walla County commissioners move water bottling plan ahead
April 11th, 2018 | Category: Central Oregon, Featured Posts, Legal, Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed, News, Oregon, Privatization, Protection, Rights of Nature, Surface Water, United States | Most Central Oregon residents are aware that the Deschutes River is severely compromised. However, the public is not getting all the information needed to make intelligent choices about the Deschutes River.
Some 90 percent of the water withdrawn from the Deschutes River is for irrigation. By comparison, all industry and municipal withdrawals amount to 5 percent. In other words, if the only withdrawals were for cities like Bend, the Deschutes would still be a functioning river.
As […]
Continue reading Guest column: Deschutes should not be damaged for personal profit
By TODD KEPPLE • APR 9, 2018
Jefferson Public Radio
The need for more water in the Central Valley of California has generated countless headlines over the years, and officials there have frequently looked as far as Southeastern Oregon for possible sources of water supplies.
The Upper Klamath Basin was still frontier territory in 1858 when the French-language newspaper Le Phare in San Francisco published a story about abundant water supplies to be found north of the state […]
Continue reading As It Was: California Covets Upper Klamath Basin Water
April 7th, 2018 | Category: California, Featured Posts, Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed, News, Oregon, Protection, Rights of Nature, Southern Oregon, Surface Water, United States | Humboldt County Times Standard
By Lyle Marshall
POSTED: 04/06/18, 11:08 PM PDT | UPDATED: 3 HRS AGO
I’m still livid over the March 29 Times-Standard deck head under the headline, “Salmon season likely to reopen” which read, “Hoopa tribe overharvested salmon by 10 times its share, agencies say.” Who determined the Hoopa Tribe’s “share”? The Hoopa Valley Tribe’s position has always been that the 80/20 allocation of in-river harvest, established by the Bureau of […]
Continue reading The KBRA killed the Klamath River
April 5th, 2018 | Category: Central Oregon, Columbia River, Featured Posts, Legal, News, Oregon, Protection, Rights of Nature, Surface Water, United States | JAYSON JACOBY
THE BAKER CITY HERALD
April 4, 2018
A court ruling requiring officials to pass more water through the spillways of eight federal dams to aid migrating salmon and steelhead, rather than using the water to produce electricity, could increase monthly bills for Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative customers for part of the year.
The decision Monday by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affects four dams on the lower Snake River in Washington and […]
Continue reading Dam spill could boost OTEC bills
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