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Water Matters: Public health and water quality

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Water Matters: Public health and water quality

It all started with oysters.

Water Matters: Deluge

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Water Matters: Deluge

This is supposed to be a column focused on water conservation by the local agricultural sector, but with…

Water Matters: Laws of water

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Water Matters: Laws of water

The funny thing about water law is that it can seem as fluid as the medium it’s meant…

Water Matters: Reciprocal gifts

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Water Matters: Reciprocal gifts

Did Mother Earth gift you crab to crack or oysters to shuck this season?

Water Matters: Local meltdown

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Water Matters: Local meltdown

Have you ever stood on the smooth top of a glacier? Heli-skiing perhaps? Or maybe you were deposited…

Water Matters: How our water works

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Water Matters: How our water works

‘Story of Water’

Water Matters: Clean Water ‘Act’

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Water Matters: Clean Water ‘Act’

A friend pointed out that stuff is happening with regard to federal protection of clean water … and…

Water Matters: Water rates

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Water Matters: Water rates

The current “snowpack drought” is affecting all the rivers in Western Washington, and water systems directly using those…

Water Matters: Driving on sunshine

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Water Matters: Driving on sunshine

It’s the season of long days, with increasing warmth, sunshine – and snowmelt in the Dungeness River.

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Water Matters: Drought!

Drought!

Water Matters: Seeking equilibrium

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Water Matters: Seeking equilibrium

More than 25 years ago I wanted to share a hydrologist’s delight that Sequim’s annual Irrigation Festival coincided…

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Water Matters: Charismatic megafauna

Charismatic megafauna: It’s a mouthful. It’s a good start on a haiku.

Water Matters: Circles, cycles, but no conclusions

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Water Matters: Circles, cycles, but no conclusions

In the past few months I’ve realized that my fixation on cycles is authentic, at least: like a…