POLICY
To seek practical, streamlined water polices that can enhance and sustain Washington’s communities and ecosystems.
Existing rules can be complicated, challenging and, at times, overwhelming to navigate. WRC works through this maze to find solutions. Where outdated policies limit the flexibility needed for achieving positive results on the ground, WRC aims to modernize the legal context and to facilitate non-regulatory approaches that bring people together around strategies of multiple-use.
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EDUCATION
To increase the public’s awareness about how water law and water rights affect their land, their communities and the quality of life in Washington.
WRC helps stakeholders understand the legal and ecological complexities of water, so they can make informed and often time-sensitive decisions about their water rights.
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WATER RIGHTS ASSESSMENT AND MITIGATION
To provide legal and scientific expertise in managing water rights for the benefit of local economies and ecosystems.
A leader in the area of due diligence, WRC researches and documents the history and status of water rights associated with public and private lands in Washington. In cases where water users desire to change their water rights, WRC can design and facilitate approaches to offset potential impacts in positive ways.
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FLOW RESTORATION AND PROTECTION
To improve the economic vitality and biological health of Washington’s communities and watersheds using voluntary, market-based approaches to enhance streamflows, including purchase, lease, efficiency improvements and water banking.
Working in partnership with landowners, irrigation districts and other stakeholders, WRC brings funding sources and technical expertise to strategic locations where improving flows of clean, cold water will result in cost-effective improve- ments to some of Washington’s most important habitats.
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To seek practical, streamlined water polices that can enhance and sustain Washington’s communities and ecosystems.
Existing rules can be complicated, challenging and, at times, overwhelming to navigate. WRC works through this maze to find solutions. Where outdated policies limit the flexibility needed for achieving positive results on the ground, WRC aims to modernize the legal context and to facilitate non-regulatory approaches that bring people together around strategies of multiple-use.
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To increase the public’s awareness about how water law and water rights affect their land, their communities and the quality of life in Washington.
WRC helps stakeholders understand the legal and ecological complexities of water, so they can make informed and often time-sensitive decisions about their water rights.
Back to Top
To provide legal and scientific expertise in managing water rights for the benefit of local economies and ecosystems.
A leader in the area of due diligence, WRC researches and documents the history and status of water rights associated with public and private lands in Washington. In cases where water users desire to change their water rights, WRC can design and facilitate approaches to offset potential impacts in positive ways.
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To improve the economic vitality and biological health of Washington’s communities and watersheds using voluntary, market-based approaches to enhance streamflows, including purchase, lease, efficiency improvements and water banking.
Working in partnership with landowners, irrigation districts and other stakeholders, WRC brings funding sources and technical expertise to strategic locations where improving flows of clean, cold water will result in cost-effective improve- ments to some of Washington’s most important habitats.
Their expertise in water markets and policy makes WRC a key partner in public and private sector efforts to better manage Washington’s streams and rivers.
JAY MANNING | DIRECTOR | WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY
Water law can be overwhelmingly frustrating for a typical farmer like me, especially when problems arise. WRC came to my rescue.
RUSS GRIFFITH | LANDOWNER | ENTIAT VALLEY
While WRC keeps their focus on water, they understand what it takes to succeed in ranching. They’re trying to find what’s best for everybody. WRC earned my respect.
CHARLIE LEHMAN | RANCHER | METHOW VALLEY
Investing in rivers to improve their quality costs pennies on the dollar compared to waiting until we reach a crisis. That’s the kind of common sense conservation that WRC brings
to our communities.
ROB MASONIS | DIRECTOR | AMERICAN RIVERS, NORTHWEST REGIONAL OFFICEBack to Top
