Our Klamath Basin Water Crisis
Upholding rural Americans' rights to grow food,
own property, and caretake our wildlife and natural resources.
Our Klamath Basin
Water Crisis
Upholding rural Americans' rights to grow food,
own property, and caretake our wildlife and natural resources.
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FAMILY FARM
ALLIANCE
NEWS FLASH
March 16, 2004
Western
Water Alliance Closes Its Doors
In an
era when it seems the environmental movement has
been able to raise and spend as much money as it
pleases, a ray of hope has broken through. The
Western Water Alliance, an organization that
sprang to life just two years ago and was funded
and managed by Trout Unlimited, has folded
up. The Western Water Alliance failed to find
broad support and could not raise enough funding
to maintain its operation. We always believed
that The Western Water Alliance name was intended
to create confusion with the Family Farm
Alliance. Steve Malloch, the Executive Director
of the Western Water Alliance, once called the FFA the
"most effective voice for Western irrigated
agriculture". He intended it as a criticism of
our policies, but it will stand as one of the
nicest compliments ever paid the Family Farm
Alliance.
Enclosed below is a memo from
Malloch to his mailing list explaining the fate of
the organization.
Craig Smith
Executive Director
Family Farm
Alliance
The Western WaterfrontProduced by Trout Unlimited. March 10, 2004 1. View from the Waterfront The View this week is ... unsettled. As of the end of February, the Western Water Alliance closed its office, and I resigned as Director. In difficult financial times, we were not able to raise the money to implement a far-reaching and ambitious agenda. I am proud of WWA’s achievements in working to build a west-wide political and policy base for sustainable and equitable use of water. Over the past three years we: held a series of convenings; formulated a west-wide perspective opposing Bush Administration efforts to limit Clean Water Act jurisdiction; engaged western waters interests in the fight to save the Endangered Species Act; laid ground work for policy development on long-term drought response and global warming; and, in association with Trout Unlimited, published the The Western Waterfront. With this decision to put the Western Water Alliance on ice, the fate of the Western Waterfront is unsettled. I will be looking for ways to keep it going, while at the same time looking for my next project. We will let you know how things turn out. Steve
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