SEQUIM — Get ready to talk water.
An educational forum, “Managing Our Water,” will be from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 525 N. Fifth Ave.
Sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Clallam County, the forum will include presentations on water law basics, watershed hydrology, water use data and trends and planning to prevent water shortages.
A question-and-answer session will follow the forum, which will include Shirley Nixon, a Port Angeles lawyer once affiliated with the Center for Environmental Law & Policy, a “‘water watchdog’ advocacy organization dedicated solely to protecting Washington’s rivers and streams,” according to the group’s website at www.celp.org; and Amanda Cronin, of Washington Water Trust, a river and stream restoration group with offices in Seattle and Ellensburg.
Attendance at the forum in important in light of pending state in-stream flow rules for the eastern portion of Water Resources Area 18 that will be set with an eye toward providing enough water for human consumption as well as salmon, said Marguerite Glover, a member of the Dungeness River Management Team.
The east half of WRIA 18 stretches from Bagley Creek to west of Blyn.
“It will help them to understand water law,” Glover said Sunday.