Name: The Impacts of Water Adjudication on All of Us
Start: 2025-01-22
End: 2025-01-22
Location: Bellingham Yacht Club

From cities and tribes to farms and businesses, everyone's water use in Whatcom County will be affected by Water Adjudication. What will be the wide-reaching impacts and implications for us all in Washington’s largest lawsuit ever? Whether residents and municipalities use city water, well water, rent or own, run a business or farm, or belong to a tribe, this legal process will impact everyone’s water availability.

The resulting legal process of Water Adjudication will quantify and prioritize water use, with the highest priority given to the oldest, continuous water use. The process determines whether each water right on a source is legal, how much water can be used, and its priority during water shortages. One can see why this legal process will be very complex, likely contentious, and take a lot of time – perhaps decades.

Registration required: https://bhamcityclub.wildapricot.org/event-6016360/registration

Starts: January 22, 2025

Time: Opens: 11:30 a.m.

Admission: $10-$30

Location: Bellingham Yacht Club
2625 S Harbor Loop Dr., Bellingham, WA 98229

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Produced By: Bellingham City Club

Contact Person: Allison Roberts

Phone: 360-441-1776

Email: PR@bellinghamcityclub.org

We acknowledge that Whatcom County is located on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples. They cared for the lands that included what we’d call the Puget Sound region, Vancouver Island and British Columbia since time immemorial. This gives us the great obligation and opportunity to learn how to care for our surrounding areas and all the natural and human resources we require to live. We express our deepest respect and gratitude for our indigenous neighbors, the Lummi Nation and Nooksack Tribe, for their enduring care and protection of our shared lands and waterways.