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"Breaking the hydroillogical cycle."
Media Source:
Seattle TimesMedia URL:
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/yakima-valley-drought-forces-wa-farmers-to-rip-out-apple-trees/Date:
2025/11/16Summary:
In Washington’s Yakima River Basic, as in many watersheds across the west, people own the rights to more water than actually exists, leading to what Lewis & Clark Professor Karen Russell calls the ‘hydroillogical cycle.’ The resulting adjudication is a legal process prioritizing those with competing claims to water rights, to determine whose water will get cut – potentially leaving Tribes, communities, or fish and other species without sufficient water.
