KWUA Introduces New Website: Check out
www.kwua.org The Klamath Water Users Association (KWUA) today launched the official website of the organization: www.kwua.org. The first website of the association was started during the 2001 water crisis but was never completed. As the events of 2001 unfolded, nationwide attention allowed another website – klamathbasincrisis.org – to flourish and serve as a forum for up-to-date news and on-line discussion regarding the water cutoff. KWUA earlier this year authorized the development of an independent website that will provide the public with the association’s perspectives. Meanwhile, klamathbasincrisis.org will continue to serve as a separate forum managed by Jacqui Krizo. "KBC, Klamath Basin Crisis, is the grass roots website of the Klamath Basin irrigators and their community," said Krizo, who farms near Tulelake, California. "The night our water was shut off in 2001, I emailed the world in total disbelief and despair. Ronnie DeShon, an old neighbor whose father also was a Tulelake homesteader, called and ask what he could do to help, and within a week he created www.klamathbasincrisis.org." Numerous individuals and organizations, including KWUA, the Klamath Bucket Brigade and Water for Life, Inc. have contributed information that can be viewed on KBC. Like the Bucket Brigade, KWUA made the decision to develop an independent website to ensure that the association message and policy positions were clear to the local community and website visitors from outside the Klamath Basin. KWUA will continue to contribute information to KBC, but the new website, www.kwua.org, will focus solely on Klamath River watershed and Klamath Project issues that the association is engaged with. The new site will include:
The site will be regularly updated and will also include stunning photography. "We are excited about offering this new forum for the public to learn about our association and our community," said KWUA Executive Director Dan Keppen. The Klamath Water Users Association is a non-profit corporation based in Klamath Falls, Oregon that, since 1953, represents the Klamath Project rural irrigation districts, local special districts, and private concerns who operate on both sides of the California-Oregon border.
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