Water Policy Education


The Columbia Institute provides education and training resources to assist individuals who seek to promote sustainable water management in the Columbia River watershed.  Our education resources include workshops, a speakers bureau, and a spectrum of educational materials, designed with the goal of improving the abilities and participation of non-traditional water advocates (women, Native Americans, Latinos and others) in water resource decision processes.  Our workshops include:

•Tribal Water Policy

•Women in Water Policy

•Clean Water Workshops


   Water Policy Research


The Columbia Institute provides a comprehensive voice for innovation and reform in water use and management policies across the entire Columbia River watershed.  Our policy research program focuses on several topics:

•Water Conservation and the “Soft Path” to Water Management

•Columbia Basin Water Supply Sustainability

•Transboundary Water Allocation

•Water Markets


 

The Columbia Institute for Water Policy offers a variety of programs to promote the equitable and sustainable use and protection of the transboundary freshwater resources of the Columbia River watershed.

   Ethics and Water


The Columbia Institute promotes ethics in environmental advocacy:

•Bedside to Streamside Project – building on the Pastoral Letter on the Columbia River Watershed, this project promotes ethics education among environmental and public health professionals using a model that translates medical ethics used in clinics and hospital wards to the environmental and public health context.

•Environmental Advocacy Standards Project – a program that promotes ethical standards in the environmental advocacy arena.



   Watershed Advocacy


The Columbia Institute promotes sustainable water use through its work on projects in specific watersheds around the Columbia River basin, including:

•Spokane River Streamflow Restoration Project

•Methow Valley Water Conservation Project

•Idaho Reserved Water Rights Project

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For more information about our programs please call us at 509-954-5641 or send us an e-mail.