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Submit an Article for September-October 2022 Water Resources IMPACT Theme Issue: 'Pacific Northwest Water'

Write an article for Water Resources IMPACT!

We are soliciting 8-10 articles (~800 - 1300 words) on the general topic of 'Pacific Northwest Water'. We are choosing this topic to 'promote' our 2022 annual conference in the Seattle area, 7-9 November.

So what is the 'Pacific Northwest'? Certainly Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia. But how about Northern California? SE Alaska? Here is what Wikipedia says, Contact me for clarification (Email: aguadoc@live.com; 541-602-4085)

Here is a description of Water Resources IMPACT from the website:

Consistently chosen by members as one of AWRA's top benefits, Water Resources IMPACT magazine is a practical, solution-oriented digital magazine containing diverse and timely articles written for water resources management professionals at all levels of their career. Designed to coincide with specialty conferences and other AWRA activities, IMPACT is a bi-monthly collection of themed articles gathered by Guest Editors and based on the editorial calendar chosen by its Advisory Board.

You do not need to be an AWRA member or attending the Seattle conference
to submit an article. There are no page charges. 

Author instructions:

Download IMPACT Author Instructions_May_2022

I emphasize that these are not journal articles and should not be written like one. We are more interested in reading a story. See the articles in our March-April 2022 issue below. 

Here is a 'flipping book' version of the March-April version: The Lakes Sampler,

And a PDF: Download 168619 AWRA MarApr Impact v2 

And: Download IMPACT Author Instructions

The instructions may seem onerous but they aren't really - I am looking for articles (not journal articles). I want something on the order of 800-1300 words, with some figures/graphics and conversational/storytelling style. 

Topics

So what kinds of topics would be appropriate? Anything related to water in the PNW. 

Some examples:

1) Transboundary/transnational boundary issues; compacts & treaties

2) Education and training; workforce needs

3) Agriculture

4) Water quality and 'forever' chemicals'; waste disposal; Hanford site

5) IWRM

6) Endangered/threatened aquatic species

7) Dam removal

8) Ensuring sustainabiity

9) Diversity, equity and inclusion; underserved populations/communities

10) Personhood for water resources and the environment/ecosystems

11) Water resources planning, management, ethics, policy, and governance 

12) Are projects appropriate, necessary and desirable? Who decides?

13) Monitoring and evaluation; measuring success.

14) Climate change and adaptation, CO2 sequestration

15) Hydrology, hydrogeology and hydraulics

16) Aquifer storage and recovery, managed aquifer recharge (MAR)

17) Water supply and reuse mega-projects

18) Conflict, cooperation, collaboration 

19) Just about everything else!

The fuse is short - I need your finished article by 15 August. Send me a synopsis of 100 words or so ASAP but by 11 July 2022. Email: aguadoc@live.com. 
We want to avoid any duplication, 

Thanks!

“You could not remove a single grain of sand from its place without thereby … changing something throughout all parts of the immeasurable whole.” — Fichte, The Vocation of Man (1800)

From MDPI: Water, Volume 14, Issue 10 (May-2 2022) - 148 Articles

From MDPI: Water, Volume 14, Issue 10 (May-2 2022) – 148 articles

Click here to access all papers and abstracts.

Cover Story

Article: Assessment of Climate and Catchment Control on Drought Propagation in the Tekeze River Basin, Ethiopia

Ethiopia Bisrat Zeleke, Assefa M. Melesse and Belete Berhanu Kidanewold

Water 2022, 14(10), 1564; doi:10.3390/w14101564

 

Featured Papers

Review: Sponge City Practices in China: From Pilot Exploration to Systemic Demonstration

Dingkun Yin, Changqing Xu, Haifeng Jia, Ye Yang, Chen Sun, Qi Wang and Sitong Liu

Water 2022, 14(10), 1531; doi:10.3390/w14101531

Article: Key Factors for the Findability of Fish Passes in Large Epipotamal Rivers: The Case of the River Drava

Andreas Brandl, Gregor Laaha, Sabine Käfer and Helmut Mader

Water 2022, 14(10), 1530; doi:10.3390/w14101530

Article: Genotoxicity Set Up in Artemia franciscana Nauplii and Adults Exposed to Phenanthrene, Naphthalene, Fluoranthene, and Benzo(k)fluoranthene

Luisa Albarano, Sara Serafini, Maria Toscanesi, Marco Trifuoggi, Valerio Zupo, Maria Costantini, Davide A. L. Vignati, Marco Guida and Giovanni Libralato

Water 2022, 14(10), 1594; doi:10.3390/w14101594

Article: Crop Water Productivity, Applied Water Productivity and Economic Decision Making

Violet Letseku and Bennie Grové

Water 2022, 14(10), 1598; doi:10.3390/w14101598

Article: Nutrient Control of Phytoplankton Abundance and Biomass, and Microplankton Assemblage Structure in the Lower Columbia River (Vancouver, Washington, USA)

Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens, Kristin A. Connelly, Stephen M. Bollens, Julie Zimmerman and Alixandra Coker

Water 2022, 14(10), 1599; doi:10.3390/w14101599

Article: A New Low-Cost Technology Based on Pump as Turbines for Energy Recovery in Peripheral Water Networks Branches

Armando Carravetta, Giuseppe Del Giudice, Oreste Fecarotta, Maria Cristina Morani and Helena M. Ramos

Water 2022, 14(10), 1526; doi:10.3390/w14101526

Article: Conjunctive Water Management under Multiple Uncertainties: A Case Study of the Amu Darya River Basin, Central Asia

Xiaobo Zhai, Yongping Li, Yuan Ma, Guohe Huang and Yanfeng Li

Water 2022, 14(10), 1541; doi:10.3390/w14101541

Article: A Comprehensive Derivation and Application of Reference Values for Benchmarking the Energy Performance of Activated Sludge Wastewater Treatment

Catarina Silva and Maria João Rosa

Water 2022, 14(10), 1620; doi:10.3390/w14101620

Article: The Effect of River Channel Characteristics on Landslide-Generated Waves and the Dynamic Water Pressure of the Dam Surface

Xiaogang Zhang, Ning Shuang, Xiaochun Lu, Bobo Xiong, Huajun Ming, Zhenglong Cai and Xiao Liu

Water 2022, 14(10), 1543; doi:10.3390/w14101543

Article: Estimation of Scour Propagation Rates around Pipelines While Considering Simultaneous Effects of Waves and Currents Conditions

Mohammad Najafzadeh, Giuseppe Oliveto and Farshad Saberi-Movahed

Water 2022, 14(10), 1589; doi:10.3390/w14101589

Article: Analysis of Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity of Glacier Mass Balance on the Northern and Southern Slopes of the Central Tianshan Mountains, China

Lin Liu, Hao Tian, Xueying Zhang, Hongjin Chen, Zhengyong Zhang, Guining Zhao, Ziwei Kang, Tongxia Wang, Yu Gao, Fengchen Yu, Mingyu Zhang, Xin Yi and Yu Cao

Water 2022, 14(10), 1601; doi:10.3390/w14101601

Article: Time Series Features for Supporting Hydrometeorological Explorations and Predictions in Ungauged Locations Using Large Datasets

Georgia Papacharalampous and Hristos Tyralis

Water 2022, 14(10), 1657; doi:10.3390/w14101657

Article: Groundwater and Urban Planning Perspective

Alina Radutu, Oana Luca and Constantin Radu Gogu

Water 2022, 14(10), 1627; doi:10.3390/w14101627

Article: Effects of Water and Nitrogen Management on Water Productivity, Nitrogen Use Efficiency and Leaching Loss in Rice Paddies

Kaiwen Chen, Shuang’en Yu, Tao Ma, Jihui Ding, Pingru He, Yan Dai and Guangquan Zeng

Water 2022, 14(10), 1596; doi:10.3390/w14101596

Article: Microbial Community Structure of Arsenic-Bearing Groundwater Environment in the Riverbank Filtration Zone

Shuai Lu, Yimeng Yang, Hanling Yin, Xiaosi Su, Kaining Yu and Chao Sun

Water 2022, 14(10), 1548; doi:10.3390/w14101548

Article: Flood Risk Modeling under Uncertainties: The Case Study of Croatia

Toni Kekez, Roko Andricevic and Snjezana Knezic

Water 2022, 14(10), 1585; doi:10.3390/w14101585

Article: Potential for Natural Attenuation of Domestic and Agricultural Pollution in Karst Groundwater Environments

Traian Brad, Mina Bizic, Danny Ionescu, Cecilia Maria Chiriac, Marius Kenesz, Carmen Roba, Artur Ionescu, Alexandru Fekete, Ionut Cornel Mirea and Oana Teodora Moldovan

Water 2022, 14(10), 1597; doi:10.3390/w14101597

Article: Interpreting Self-Potential Signal during Reactive Transport: Application to Calcite Dissolution and Precipitation

Flore Rembert, Damien Jougnot, Linda Luquot and Roger Guérin

Water 2022, 14(10), 1632; doi:10.3390/w14101632

Article: Spatial and Temporal Variability of Rainfall Trends in Response to Climate Change—A Case Study: Syria

Martina Zeleňáková, Hany F. Abd-Elhamid, Katarína Krajníková, Jana Smetanková, Pavol Purcz and Ibrahim Alkhalaf

Water 2022, 14(10), 1670; doi:10.3390/w14101670

Article: Biological Mineralization of Methyl Orange by Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Asad Ullah Khan, Muhammad Zahoor, Mujaddad Ur Rehman, Abdul Bari Shah, Ivar Zekker, Farhat Ali Khan, Riaz Ullah, Ghadeer M. Albadrani, Roula Bayram and Hanan R. H. Mohamed

Water 2022, 14(10), 1551; doi:10.3390/w14101551

Article: Towards a Better Understanding of Long-Term Self-Forming Dynamic Membrane Bioreactor (SFDMBR) Performance: Effect of Aeration Intensity

Fengkai Sun, Huimin Wang, Qian Peng, Jian Zhang, Shuang Liang and Xia Wang

Water 2022, 14(10), 1561; doi:10.3390/w14101561

Article: Synergistic Effects of Calcium Peroxide and Fe₃O₄@BC Composites on AVS Removal, Phosphorus and Chromium Release in Sediments

Yintian Li, Yanchun Huang, Xueying Wang, Ge Gou, Chao Liu, Jun Li, Yuxin He and Naiwen Li

Water 2022, 14(10), 1626; doi:10.3390/w14101626

Article: Is There Spatial and Temporal Variability in the Response of Plant Canopy and Trunk Growth to Climate Change in a Typical River Basin of Arid Areas

Kaiye Yuan, Hailiang Xu and Guangpeng Zhang

Water 2022, 14(10), 1573; doi:10.3390/w14101573

Article: Long-, Medium-, and Short-Term Nested Optimized-Scheduling Model for Cascade Hydropower Plants: Development and Practical Application

Ling Shang, Xiaofei Li, Haifeng Shi, Feng Kong, Ying Wang and Yizi Shang

Water 2022, 14(10), 1586; doi:10.3390/w14101586

Article: Estimating Point and Nonpoint Source Pollutant Flux by Integrating Various Models, a Case Study of the Lake Hawassa Watershed in Ethiopia’s Rift Valley Basin

Semaria Moga Lencha, Mihret Dananto Ulsido and Jens Tränckner

Water 2022, 14(10), 1569; doi:10.3390/w14101569

Article: Seasonal Variation and Spatial Heterogeneity of Water Quality Parameters in Lake Chenghai in Southwestern China

Pengfei Hou, Fengqin Chang, Lizeng Duan, Yang Zhang and Hucai Zhang

Water 2022, 14(10), 1640; doi:10.3390/w14101640

Article: A Novel Surge Damping Method for Hydraulic Transients with Operating Pump Using an Optimized Valve Control Strategy

Zheng Cao, Qi Xia, Xijian Guo, Lin Lu and Jianqiang Deng

Water 2022, 14(10), 1576; doi:10.3390/w14101576

Article: Failure of the Downstream Shoulder of Rockfill Dams Due to Overtopping or Throughflow

Ricardo Monteiro-Alves, Miguel Á. Toledo, Rafael Moran and Luis Balairón

Water 2022, 14(10), 1624; doi:10.3390/w14101624

Article: Low-Head Hydropower for Energy Recovery in Wastewater Systems

Marco Sinagra, Calogero Picone, Paolo Picone, Costanza Aricò, Tullio Tucciarelli and Helena M. Ramos

Water 2022, 14(10), 1649; doi:10.3390/w14101649

Article: Riverine Inputs Impact the Diversity and Population Structure of Heterotrophic Fungus-like Protists and Bacterioplankton in the Coastal Waters of the South China Sea

Suisui Wang, Kalyani Sen, Yaodong He, Mohan Bai and Guangyi Wang

Water 2022, 14(10), 1580; doi:10.3390/w14101580

Article: Response of Channel Morphology to Climate Change over the Past 2000 Years Using Vertical Boreholes Analysis in Lancang River Headwater in Tibetan Plateau

Yinjun Zhou, Yu Gao, Qinjing Shen, Xia Yan, Xiaobin Liu, Shuai Zhu, Yuansen Lai, Zhijing Li and Zhongping Lai

Water 2022, 14(10), 1593; doi:10.3390/w14101593

Article: The Effects of a Typhoon on the Dynamic of Microbial Community Structure and Water Quality of the Marine Bathing Beach

Hongxia Ming, Yantao Wang, Jie Su, Yunhan Fu, Jianrong Xu, Tingting Shi, Kaijia Ren, Yuan Jin and Jingfeng Fan

Water 2022, 14(10), 1631; doi:10.3390/w14101631

Article: Flood Forecasting via the Ensemble Kalman Filter Method Using Merged Satellite and Measured Soil Moisture Data

Chen Zhang, Siyu Cai, Juxiu Tong, Weihong Liao and Pingping Zhang

Water 2022, 14(10), 1555; doi:10.3390/w14101555

Article: Assessing the Forecasting Accuracy of a Modified Grey Self-Memory Precipitation Model Considering Scale Effects

Fanxiang Meng, Zhimin Sun, Long Yang, Kui Yu and Zongliang Wang

Water 2022, 14(10), 1647; doi:10.3390/w14101647

Perspective: Possibilities and Challenges of Wastewater Reuse—Planning Aspects and Realized Examples

Sonja Bauer and Martin Wagner

Water 2022, 14(10), 1619; doi:10.3390/w14101619

 

General

Article: An Approach for Monitoring and Classifying Marshlands Using Multispectral Remote Sensing Imagery in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions

Sadiq Al-Maliki, Taha I. M. Ibrahim, Gusztáv Jakab, Malihe Masoudi, Jamal S. Makki and Zoltán Vekerdy

Water 2022, 14(10), 1523; doi:10.3390/w14101523

Article: Comparison of Effluent Suspended Solid Concentrations from Two Types of Rectangular Secondary Clarifiers

Byonghi Lee

Water 2022, 14(10), 1577; doi:10.3390/w14101577

Article: Effects of Different Irrigation Modes on the Growth, Physiology, Farmland Microclimate Characteristics, and Yield of Cotton in an Oasis

Kai Sun, Jingran Niu, Chunxia Wang, Qiuping Fu, Guang Yang, Fei Liang and Yaqin Wang

Water 2022, 14(10), 1579; doi:10.3390/w14101579

Article: A Unified Hydrogeological Conceptual Model of the Mexico Basin Aquifer after a Century of Groundwater Exploitation

Adriana Palma, Alfonso Rivera and Rafael Carmona

Water 2022, 14(10), 1584; doi:10.3390/w14101584

Article: Genesis of Geothermal Waters in Suichuan County, China: An Integrated Method Constrained by the Hydrochemical and Isotopic Characteristics

Waseem Akram, Wei Chen, Changsheng Huang, Baoquan Hou, Xianguang Wang, Ximin Bai, Shuangshou Feng, Arifullah, Hadi Hussain, Javid Hussain, Wenjing Han and Sadam Hussain

Water 2022, 14(10), 1591; doi:10.3390/w14101591

Article: High-Throughput Sequencing of Diatom Community, Its Spatial and Temporal Variation and Interrelationships with Physicochemical Factors in Danjiangkou Reservoir, China

Chunxia Zhang, Yuxiao He, Weiguo Li, Xiaoming Guo, Chunyan Xiao and Tongqian Zhao

Water 2022, 14(10), 1609; doi:10.3390/w14101609

Article: Risk Assessment of Water Inrush of a Coal Seam Floor Based on the Combined Empowerment Method

Huiyong Yin, Guoliang Xu, Yiwen Zhang, Peihe Zhai, Xiaoxuan Li, Qiang Guo and Zongming Wei

Water 2022, 14(10), 1607; doi:10.3390/w14101607

Article: Exploring a Climate Gradient of Midwestern USA Agricultural Landscape Runoff Using Deuterium (δD) and Oxygen-18 (δ¹⁸O)

Lu Zhang, Joe Magner and Jeffrey Strock

Water 2022, 14(10), 1629; doi:10.3390/w14101629

Article: Salt Accumulation during Cropping Season in an Arid Irrigation Area with Shallow Water Table Depth: A 10-Year Regional Monitoring

Chaozi Wang, Yuanyuan Luo, Zailin Huo, Zhongyi Liu, Geng Liu, Shuai Wang, Yifan Lin and Peijin Wu

Water 2022, 14(10), 1664; doi:10.3390/w14101664

 

Special Issues Open for Submissions

Advances in Flood Forecasting and Hydrological Modeling
(Deadline: 5 June 2022)

Microplastics Transport in Seawater and Strategies against Marine Pollution
(Deadline: 5 June 2022)

Smart Water Management and Flood Mitigation
(Deadline: 9 June 2022)

Optimization and Prediction of Water Quality Model Based on Artificial Intelligence
(Deadline: 10 June 2022)

Evaluation of Reanalysis Data in Meteorological and Climatological Applications: Spatial and Temporal Considerations
(Deadline: 10 June 2022)

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Recent Special Issue Reprints Geo-Environmental Approaches for the Analysis and Assessment of Groundwater Resources at Catchment-Scale Evangelos Tziritis and Andreas Panagopoulos (Eds.) ISBN 978-3-0365-4372-7 (Hbk) ; ISBN 978-3-0365-4371-0 (PDF) doi: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-4371-0 Water Engineering in Ancient Societies Charles R. Ortloff (Ed.) ISBN 978-3-0365-4163-1 (Hbk) ; ISBN 978-3-0365-4164-8 (PDF) doi: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-4164-8 Tracer and Timescale Methods for Passive and Reactive Transport in Fluid Flows Eric Deleersnijder, Inga Monika Koszalka and Lisa V. Lucas (Eds.) ISBN 978-3-0365-3521-0 (Hbk) ; ISBN 978-3-0365-3522-7 (PDF) doi: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-3522-7 Watershed Water Environment and Hydrology under the Influence of Anthropogenic and Natural Processes Guilin Han and Zhifang Xu (Eds.) ISBN 978-3-0365-4059-7 (Hbk) ; ISBN 978-3-0365-4060-3 (PDF) doi: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-4060-3 Water Resources Management Models for Policy Assessment Luis Garrote (Ed.) ISBN 978-3-0365-4100-6 (Hbk) ; ISBN 978-3-0365-4099-3 (PDF) doi: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-4099-3 To access the full list of books, please click here   Enjoy!   "Please remember to be kind to university parking. They have to work extra hard during the summer to maintain their monthly quotas for citations. The emptier the parking lots, the harder they need to work!" - @ass_deans

 

Kris Stepenuck Article “A Pretty Good Lake”: Community Stewardship of Lake Champlain

In AWRA's March-April 2022 issue of Water Resources IMPACT The Lakes Sampler is a wonderful piece by Kris Stepenuck:

Download A Pretty Good Lake: Community Stewardship of Lake Champlain Water Resources IMPACT March:April 2022

The first paragraph:

Communities change, nations rise and fall, but the need to care for water resources remains. For some 11,000 years—since long before Europeans and others arrived in North America—the indigenous Abenaki people have lived along the shores of the lake they call “Pitawbagw.” This ancient name is roughly translated as “waters between,” denoting the lake’s place in the daily life of the Abenaki and its role as a natural boundary between them and their Iroquois neighbors. For millennia the Abenaki have fished on its waters and served as stewards of its watershed. Today Pitawbagw is more commonly known as Lake Champlain, a name that serves as testament to its place within the history of European colonization and the displacement of indigenous peoples Pitawbagw was renamed in 1609, when the French colonist and founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, explored the area, claiming it for France. Through all these political and social transformations, the health of the lake and its watershed have remained linked to the well-being and livelihood of the surrounding communities.

Kris Stepenuck (kstepenu@uvm.edu) is extension program leader for Lake Champlain Sea Grant and extension associate professor of watershed science, policy, and education in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont.

Enjoy!

“You can't keep trouble from coming, but you don't have to give it a chair to sit on." - Vermont saying

Kai Olson-Sawyer Opines: Education, Water Footprints, and More!

Great to hear from good friend Kai Olson-Sawyer. He's got something to share.

Before I post the new material he sent I want to post this PDF of short (4 pages) article he and Robin Madel published in the recent issue of Water Resources IMPACT: 'Learning to Tread Lightly: Water Footprint Education and Water Risk'

Download Olson-Sawyer_and Madel_Water_ Resources_IMPACT Jan_Feb_2022

Now for the new material! 

I’ve returned, and this time to let you know that we’ve just released two new web apps, namely the Water Footprint of Food Quiz and Water Footprint of Food Guide. The first is a short, engaging quiz that can serve as an entry point into how food and water are connected, test people’s understanding and point them to helpful resources. Next, The Water Footprint of Food Guide, provides information about the water footprint of more 100 food and beverage items.

Below are the links to the tools as well as a link to a promo piece that explains them in greater detail (including how to use Guide):

Water Footprint of Food Quiz: https://www.watercalculator.org/water-footprint-of-food-quiz/

Water Footprint of Food Guide: https://www.watercalculator.org/water-footprint-of-food-guide/

Online Tools Reveal the Water Footprint of Food: https://www.watercalculator.org/news/articles/online-tools-reveal-the-water-footprint-of-food/

Water Footprint of Food Guide methodology can be downloaded as a PDF from this webpage: https://www.watercalculator.org/footprint/water-footprint-food-guide-methodology/

Thanks again for sharing this and giving some space to the topic of water footprints. As it mature as a concept and discipline, there are many more ways for it to expand, including into methodological disputes! (see attached below.) Although water footprinting was well on its way before his untimely passing, it’s unfortunate that Arjen Hoekstra isn’t here to continue to shape it and witness its growth.

Download Pfister_2022_letter_to_editor

Please check these tools out and feel free to share them on WaterWired and throughout your networks. Also, let us know if you have any comments or questions..

As always, I appreciate your work!

Regards,

Kai

Kai Olson-Sawyer  (kai@gracelinks.org)
Senior Research and Policy Analyst
Water Footprint Project
GRACE Communications Foundation
www.watercalculator.org

Enjoy!

"People now listen to gossip as if that's the truth, but they'll read the news in a newspaper and think it must be a lie." - Harvey Fierstein

My Ten Cents: Oregon's Groundwater - Been There, Done That or Déjà-Vu All Over Again

It's St. Patrick's Day, and the color most associated with today is green - also the color of money in the USA. Water, too. 

Yesterday I stumbled upon another Oregon groundwater tale of woe, this time proffered by Oregon Public Broadcasting: Race to the bottom: How big business took over Oregon’s first protected aquifer by Emily Cureton Cook. I started reading but my mind drifted back to 2016 when The Oregonian published an excellent tome entitled Draining Oregon by Kelly House and Mark Graves. The latter is more comprehensive than the Cook report but both are excellent and pull no punches. House and Graves go in depth (no pun intended) in such a way that only a major newspaper can.  

Although Cook's article uses the Cow Valley 'water rights grab' by a San Francisco-based hedge fund and subsequent takeover of Oregon's first protected aquifer as a focal point, both articles take the Oregon Water Resources Department to the woodshed, deservedly so. OWRD has some really good, conscientious people but the leadership is lacking. I was saddened to learn that Harmony Burright, who worked on an OWRD-funded project in the Harney Basin, has left to work for Rep. Mark Owens (R- Crane) She is a keeper and Rep. Owens is lucky to have her. 

So I will simply repeat the takeaways from my blog post (7 is new) of 2016:

Here we go:

1) Err on the side of caution when issuing permits.

2) Utilize graduate/undergraduate students from Oregon and other universities to do thesis work in the affected areas and elsewhere. Yes, it will cost money but OWRD will get more bang for the buck.

3) Charge each of the 17,000 irrigation and other large-capacity (municipal and industrial) wells $150 per year and put this money towards groundwater work. Owners of the so-called ‘exempt wells’ - those not requiring a water right and limited to 15,000 gallons per day (about 16 acre-feet per year) - would pay $20 per year. There are about 150,000 of these wells so their effects can be locally significant. No one really knows how much these wells use – they are not metered.

4) Meter all large-capacity (irrigation, M&I, etc.) wells.

5) Refuse to permit wells drilled in anticipation of receiving permits.

6) Enlist the support of the state's 'movers and shakers' (or 'shovers and makers') to initiate a statewide study of Oregon's groundwater resources. 

7) Avoid the accumulation of groundwater rights by entities whose motives (hoarding, etc.) are suspect. 

A Modest Proposal
I will offer to teach a 3 to 4 hour 'Groundwater 101' course in Salem for legislators at the start of the 2017 session. No charge. I'll let some people in Salem know about my offer.

This offer conflates nicely with the Groundwater Visibility Initiative and Oregon State University's land-grant university status. 

This course will not solve the problems so cogently described by The Oregonian but will help our state's lawmakers better understand groundwater so they can make better decisions and choices. 

No one took me up on the teaching offer. I did the lecture for a group of locals in Burns and I helped out on the OWRD-sponsored Harney Basin groundwater planning project. The 10-hour RT from Corvallis took its toll after a while.

If I'm still around in 2028 I suspect I can use this post again. I am skeptical that the groundwater situation will change for the better.

Kudos to Emily Cureton Cook, Kelly House and Mark Graves. Thank heavens for journalists like them. 

Enjoy.

"Cry me a river, build a bridge, then get over it." - Unknown