Water rights & law
Water rights, courts, permits and legislation across Oregon, Washington and Idaho: archived coalition pages, regional news reports and plain-language guides.
Topics
How the archive is sorted
The old blog used more than sixty WordPress categories, from “Agriculture” to “Wave/Tidal”. Old category and tag addresses now lead to these six hubs, and every restored page and guide sits in one or two of them.
Irrigation & farms
Center pivots, groundwater, canals and crop news from the Umatilla and Morrow county farm belt, with archived coalition fact sheets and reports, 2007–2021.
Salmon & rivers
Salmon and steelhead runs, hatcheries, terns and sea lions, fish passage and river flows in the Columbia and Snake basins, from the Oregon Water Online blog.
Energy & hydropower
Hydropower, BPA rates, wind integration, dams and energy policy in the Pacific Northwest, from archived Oregon Water Online reports and regional news reposts.
Snowpack, climate & forecasts
Snowpack readings, runoff forecasts, El Niño outlooks and climate research for the Columbia Basin, recorded season by season in the Oregon Water Online blog.
Eastern Oregon communities
Hermiston, Umatilla and Morrow counties: coalition meetings, town halls, local leaders, scholarships and community news from the old oregonwatercoalition.org.