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Nile
Basin Initiative
At the ranch water practitioners for the state of Oregon were invited to discuss various provincial level initiatives and incentives supporting water cooperation, as well as discussing legal frameworks and regional issues of conflict.
In the afternoon the participants returned to Oregon State University and met with OSU President Ed Ray and the Dean of the College of Science, Sherm Bloomer. John Shurts, General Counsel for Northwest Power and Conservation Council, discussed building higher level cooperation between the four US states which share the lower Columbia and the Canadian states that surround the upper reaches, as well as working with the two federal level administrations concerning power and fish, and habitat, protection along the length of this international river. |
The
Nile Basin Initiative, a program that promotes economic
development in the basin and brings together stakeholders and
experts to explore issues of water use, power, trade and
environmental programs, collaborated with the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation to bring water and power ministers from eight Nile
Basin countries on a tour of the Columbia River Basin. The
Universities Partnership hosted one day of the tour,
highlighting multiple levels of decision making by
focusing on two different spatial scales within the Willamette
Sub-Basin. To emphasize management issues at a local level, the Ministers were given a tour of the Raindance Ranch, owned by a
private landowners, and located on
Muddy Creek, a tributary of the Willamette Sub-basin, where
water quality and habitat restoration programs were underway.