Irrigation / Water Management

Columbia Basin Long‑Term Water Supply and Demand Forecast, a partnership between the state Department of Ecology and WSU, examines water supply and demand over next 20 years.

The initiative is funded by a $30 million grant from USAID as part of a program to initiate Centers of Excellence in water, energy and agriculture in Egypt.

WSU’s Engineers Without Borders is partnering with the rural village of Zapote, Panama, to bring clean water to its residents.

Professor Jonathan Yoder to lead national research team supported by a $5 million, 5-year grant.

Naidu Rayapati, world-renowned plant pathologist, has been named director of the Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center in Prosser and assistant dean for WSU Tri-Cities CAHNRS.

OLYMPIA, Wash. – Four Washington State University faculty have been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences.

SAN FRANCISCO – Five public, community workshops to help some San Francisco neighborhoods adapt to sea level rising, flooding and drought will be hosted by the Washington State University Adaptive Water Urbanism Initiative Jan. 27-29.

POULSBO, Wash. – Stream and watershed stewardship classes will be held 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursdays, Feb. 2-March 9, at Island Lake John Horsley Community Room, 1087 Northwest Island Lake Road, in Poulsbo.

PUYALLUP, Wash. – John Stark, a Washington State University professor and ecotoxicologist, has worn two hats over the past decade as he led both the WSU Research and Extension Center in Puyallup and the Washington Stormwater Center.

By Eric Sorensen, WSU science writer PULLMAN, Wash. – As long as ecologists have studied temperate lakes, the winter has been their off-season. It’s difficult, even dangerous, to look under the ice, and they figured plants, animals and algae weren’t doing much in the dark and cold anyway.