In Our Words

For more than twenty years both the Nooksack Tribe and Lummi Nation have worked with local and state governments and other entities in multiple attempts to resolve ongoing water rights conflicts throughout the basin and provide all water users with the certainty needed to move forward together in the shared management of our limited water resources.

Unfortunately, none of those local efforts have been successful and, with increased population growth and impacts of climate change, our people and the salmon can no longer wait. We need to adjudicate water rights.