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Water Matters: Circles and cycles, part II
Last month the topic of this column wasn’t water, but recycling. I gave in to my fascination and…
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Watter Matters: Circles and cycles, Part 1
If your bandwidth for crises isn’t overwhelmed, you may be aware there’s a recycling crisis going on right…
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Water Matters: Sustainability
This Monday evening there were at least two winners … the Seahawks impressed and Sequim City Council heard…
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Water Matters: Climate meltdown
It’s been a tough week. No one likes to lose. But the defeat of Initiative 1631 — setting…
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Water Matters: A day without water
In case you missed it, Oct. 10 was the fourth annual “Imagine a Day Without Water.”
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Water Matters: A team effort
There’s an award-winning team of folks that’s been working behind the scenes for our community … for 30…
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Water Matters: Drought by the numbers, 180 and 120 cfs
A cubic-foot-per-second (cfs) is a measure of stream flow equivalent to about 7.5 gallons passing a point each…
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Watter Matters: History matters
In my last column I indulged in banter about the passage of time. Now, we’re diving deep and…
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Water Matters: Time after time
It’s high school graduation time again and our attention turns to that special threshold of modern life. I…
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Water Matters: The ‘Grandfather Fir’
In my foothills neighborhood we recently lost our sentry tree, a 500-year old Douglas Fir towering above the…
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Water Matters: #OneWater
Last month I had the good fortune to attend the annual Sustainable Water Management Conference, held this year…
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Water Matters: Capetown and closer to home
Capetown, South Africa, has the world’s attention lately, counting down the days until the drinking water supply for…
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Water Matters: Water politics, again
If you track government budgets at all, last week was a doozy.