Water

Water is critical to all life on Earth. The clear rivers, beautiful lakes and pure drinking water are reasons many of us chose to make Northern Idaho home. Kootenai Environmental Alliance is the leading advocate for water conservation and water quality protection across the Inland Northwest. We work to protect the Rathdrum-Prairie Aquifer, the surface beauty our water presents, as well as, the water quality in Spokane River, Coeur d’Alene Lake and Hayden Lake, which have de-graded due to elevated phosphorous levels, sediment and storm water pollution.

Priest Lake, by Monika Clarke

• Kootenai County Shoreline Protection Still TBD May 11, 2012

  Yesterday, the CDA Press reported that the Kootenai County Commissioners were "scrapping a proposal to expand shoreline protection requirements" in the re-writing of the zoning and development codes. ...

• Region Lacking Industrial Stormwater Permits April 3, 2012

  With the remarkable rains over the last weeks, our waterways are both swollen with water, but also choked with pollution. Streams are running the color of chocolate. Stormwater runoff is probably the ...

• Supreme Court Unanimously Rules for Sacketts on Narrow Procedural Grounds March 21, 2012

  In an opinion released this morning (pdf), Justice Scalia wrote for a unanimous court that Mike and Chantelle Sackett will get a day in court to challenge EPA’s wetlands compliance order. The Court ru...

• Bonner County Notes Sunshine Week By Hiding Public Records March 17, 2012

  Sunshine week is an annual awareness campaign organized by the American Association of News Editors and sponsored by dozens of impressive organizations interested in open and transparent government. T...

• Property Rights Council Votes Against Drinking Water Protection March 13, 2012

  As Bonner County Property Rights Council member Tom Cleveland explained, the whole idea behind drinking water protection in Bonner County was "with the blessing of the EPA" which he called a "Gestapo ...

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