Author: Chris Czarnecki, Development Director
Summer is on its way. For all the warmth and sunlight and joy the season brings, it can also mean danger for the fish in our rivers. Salmon need cool, flowing water to migrate upstream and spawn. Unfortunately, those lifegiving flows have disappeared from many of Washington’s streams.
Too much demand for water leaves many rivers and streams struggling to flow during the summer. Warming temperatures make low flows worse by reducing snowpack and causing droughts, as we have experienced in five of the last ten years.
Low flows in the Teanaway River during the 2015 drought. Photo Credit: Robert Granger, WDFW
Dry river beds with no fish don’t have to be the end of this story. You can keep rivers flowing and save salmon.
When you make a tax-deductible donation to Washington Water Trust, you help restore water to rivers and streams to benefit salmon and local communities. Early giving for GiveBIG is open and the first $10,000 donated through May 7 will be matched to double your impact!
Please help us meet our goal so we can ensure Washington’s beautiful rivers and streams flow full of cool water this summer and into the future.
