iPOINT: New Water Deals: Re-Watering the Streams
In this TEDx Ranier talk from Nov. 2010 Rob Harmon of the Bonneville Environmental Foundation describes how an innovative market mechanism created a way for competitors for water rights — farmers and brewers — to turn around 140 years of intransigence and bring water back to streams long since baked out and unusable.
Harmon reports that programs like this, which can involve partners across western states, have returned more than 4 billion gallons to formerly de-wateredstreams in the state. One of them was Prickly Pear Creek: before and after:
Prickly Pear Creek Before
… and after