Water plan falls short, court rules

Water plan falls short, court rules By Bob Egelko San Francisco Chronicle October 19, 2005   The federal government is not supplying enough water to the Klamath River to sustain the dwindling coho salmon, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a victory for conservationists and fishing interests in southern Oregon and northwestern California. The

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A utility’s plan to end a longtime power subsidy could mean less water going to agriculture

A utility’s plan to end a longtime power subsidy could mean less water going to agriculture U.S. Water News Online March 01, 2005   Through sickness and health, drought and abundance, Klamath basin farmers have been wedded to dirt-cheap power for nearly nine decades. Electric pumps lift water from an aquifer, help pull it from

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Water for the Taking

By Paul Koberstein  |  Oct. 31, 1994  |  High Country News Some irrigators get loose with the law. Hermiston, Oregon — Every summer, a 32-mile segment of the Umatilla River in northeast Oregon goes bone dry — but it’s not, as one might expect, the product of drought on the arid, windswept prairie. Irrigators take

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