Klamath Basin water users advocate in Washington, D.C.
At the end of March, representatives from the Klamath Water Users Association (KWUA) traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with congressional representatives and officials in the Biden Administration. With 15 meetings and a congressional oversight hearing scheduled over the course of three and half days, water users pursued a host of issues related to the Klamath Project. Luckily, this was a crew well-seasoned to arduous meetings over water policy. Topping water users’ agenda was addressing the current dysfunction in the Project’s operations. During the last three years, farmers and ranchers have been limited to approximately 16% of the inflow to Upper Klamath Lake (in comparison to the 83% allocated to river flows), leading to widespread, economic, social, and environmental hardships.