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Officials outline new Columbia River Treaty agreement | Water | capitalpress.com
Officials outline new Columbia River Treaty agreement | Water | capitalpress.com
The modernized Columbia River Treaty agreement-in-principle provides certainty hydropower certainty, flood risk management and salmon and ecosystem health, U.S. officials said in a July 11 media call. Changes include a new body to allow tribes and indigenous nations to make recommendations on the timing and quantity of flows for salmon in the Columbia River Basin, and more conservative flood-risk management in the U.S. in wetter years — changes which would have been more extreme without the modernized treaty.
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Officials outline new Columbia River Treaty agreement | Water | capitalpress.com