WA - Defending In-stream Flows

WWP’s focus is on working with willing landowners and others to improve streamflows for salmon, steelhead and other fish and wildlife species. To do this, WWP engages on a wide variety of projects, including:

• Water right donations, purchases, and leases to the Trust Water Rights Program for in-stream flow
• Drought Year Leasing Programs
• Point of diversion changes
• Surface to groundwater changes
• Diversion Reduction Agreements
• On-farm efficiencies
• Reverse Water Right Auctions
• Conveyance system irrigation efficiencies
• Water Banks

Moreover, WWP facilitates the transfer of water rights to the Washington State Trust Water Rights Program, which provides protection from Washington’s five-year “use it or lose it” relinquishment law, and also protects stream flows for endangered fish.