Hot, dry spring dries up Eastern Washington
A wooden bridge over the East Low Canal north of Warden. While many of the canals in Eastern Washington are now filled with water from regional reservoirs, the Washington State Department of Ecology says there is still a drought in progress with a shortage of water overall in comparison to recent years.
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Early July data points (top right) for the Yakima Basin water year.
Dams like the Grand Coulee Dam, pictured here, help manage water as a resource for Eastern Washington, but even with that water management tool available, there still needs to be enough rainfall to prevent a drought from occurring.
OLYMPIA — Water, water everywhere… or maybe not. The irrigation situation in Eastern Washington has made a turnaround compared to recent years.
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