73 Coming Home

The life cycle of salmon is filled with question about how they adapt from freshwater to salt water and back to freshwater again. And most of all, how do they find their way back to their birthplace? Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing brings you another water relationship that has a personally significant impact to your life. 

Stephen J. Baker, producer of Operation Unite’s Living Water® radio series, “Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing”, has completed 258 episodes from around the world since 2006. Each story is a real circumstance of one water relationship that exists in the world.  Contact Operation Unite® if you would like your organization’s water relationship to be shared with the masses.  

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Operation Unite®; stevebaker@operationunite.co; 530-263-1007 

177 Time Well Spent

The Yakama basin back in 1905 was home to water battles between  people wanting to use the wealth of rivers and creeks available in the state of Washington. Today, groundwater has become the new battle ground. Are the creeks and rivers connected to underlying groundwater aquifers and if so, is there enough water to meet current demands?  Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing brings you another water relationship that has a personally significant impact to your life. 

Stephen J. Baker, producer of Operation Unite’s Living Water® radio series, “Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing”, has completed 258 episodes from around the world since 2006. Each story is a real circumstance of one water relationship that exists in the world.  Contact Operation Unite® if you would like your organization’s water relationship to be shared with the masses.  

Bringing People Together to Solve Water Problems 

Operation Unite®; stevebaker@operationunite.co; 530-263-1007 

174 It Can Happen to You

You may have thought that there will never be a day that you would be asked to curtail your water supply because of drought, especially a whole town. Well, guess, what?  Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing brings you another water relationship that has a personally significant impact to your life. 

Stephen J. Baker, producer of Operation Unite’s Living Water® radio series, “Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing”, has completed 258 episodes from around the world since 2006. Each story is a real circumstance of one water relationship that exists in the world.  Contact Operation Unite® if you would like your organization’s water relationship to be shared with the masses.  

Bringing People Together to Solve Water Problems 

Operation Unite®; stevebaker@operationunite.co; 530-263-1007 

117 How Much is Too Much

Washington Department of Ecology focuses on protecting the natural environment in the state of Washington. A mission of this sort must deal with water in nearly every situation that the department is active. One of the rapidly growing concerns in the state of Washington is the drilling and use of permit exempt wells. Owners of these wells sometimes sidestep the rigorous permits needed to obtain a more formal water right in the state. Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing brings you another water relationship that has a personally significant impact to your life. 

Stephen J. Baker, producer of Operation Unite’s Living Water® radio series, “Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing”, has completed 258 episodes from around the world since 2006. Each story is a real circumstance of one water relationship that exists in the world.  Contact Operation Unite® if you would like your organization’s water relationship to be shared with the masses.  

Bringing People Together to Solve Water Problems 

Operation Unite®; stevebaker@operationunite.co; 530-263-1007 

125 Searching Out Solutions

Douglas County is just south of Denver, Colorado and home to eight to nine thousand individual domestic water wells that people use through the exempt permit process. Adding up the impacts of all these wells ends up equal to the water demand of 62,000 people living in the largest city within Douglas County, Castlerock, Colorado. Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing brings you another water relationship that has a personally significant impact to your life. 

Stephen J. Baker, producer of Operation Unite’s Living Water® radio series, “Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing”, has completed 258 episodes from around the world since 2006. Each story is a real circumstance of one water relationship that exists in the world.  Contact Operation Unite® if you would like your organization’s water relationship to be shared with the masses.  

Bringing People Together to Solve Water Problems 

Operation Unite®; stevebaker@operationunite.co; 530-263-1007 

8 Caretakers of the Earth

The Arctic and Antarctic regions play a significant role in supporting the life styles that we enjoy today. It gives us the cycles of the seasons, migration of birds, April showers, rise and fall of the groundwater table and the first snowfall of winter. How is it that water’s response to the heat of the sun could erase generations of memories of what the good old days were like. Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing brings you another water relationship that has a personally significant impact to your life.

Stephen J. Baker, producer of Operation Unite’s Living Water® radio series, “Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing”, has completed 258 episodes from around the world since 2006. Each story is a real circumstance of one water relationship that exists in the world.  Contact Operation Unite® if you would like your organization’s water relationship to be shared with the masses.

Bringing People Together to Solve Water Problems

Operation Unite®; stevebaker@operationunite.co; 530-263-1007

95 A Farm Bureau's View of Water

Fresno County has over 6,000 farms making it the leading farm county in the nation.  Unfortunately, drought continues to make it difficult for this County.  Low water years have already visited the area several times since the new millennium began.  When low water years happen surface water becomes scarce and groundwater is over pumped. How does the Fresno County Farm Bureau see resolution to this problem and where should their efforts  be placed? I visited Fresno County in 2009 and can tell you conditions have not improved. Water shortage has really become a deal breaker for Fresno County farmers.  Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing brings you another water relationship that has a personally significant impact to your life. 

Stephen J. Baker, producer of Operation Unite’s Living Water® radio series, “Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing”, has completed 258 episodes from around the world since 2006. Each story is a real circumstance of one water relationship that exists in the world.  Contact Operation Unite® if you would like your organization’s water relationship to be shared with the masses.  

Bringing People Together to Solve Water Problems 

Operation Unite®; stevebaker@operationunite.co; 530-263-1007 

253 Responsible Cannabis Farming

Right now, a new industry has the opportunity to climb out of its stigma as an underground, below the radar style business and become respected and supported in society. I’m talking about medicinal cannabis farming. Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing brings you another water relationship that has a personally significant impact to your life. 

Stephen J. Baker, producer of Operation Unite’s Living Water® radio series, “Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing”, has completed 258 episodes from around the world since 2006. Each story is a real circumstance of one water relationship that exists in the world.  Contact Operation Unite® if you would like your organization’s water relationship to be shared with the masses.  

Bringing People Together to Solve Water Problems 

Operation Unite®; stevebaker@operationunite.co; 530-263-1007 

226 Outcome Based Water Management

Managing the health of a watershed has historically been attempted by predicting the results of possible manager behavior with computer models. The strategy was; if a good result was calculated, the approach would be tried in the field. This has produced mixed results. Are there better approaches to managing a watershed? Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing brings you another water relationship that has a personally significant impact to your life. 

Stephen J. Baker, producer of Operation Unite’s Living Water® radio series, “Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing”, has completed 258 episodes from around the world since 2006. Each story is a real circumstance of one water relationship that exists in the world.  Contact Operation Unite® if you would like your organization’s water relationship to be shared with the masses.  

Bringing People Together to Solve Water Problems 

Operation Unite®; stevebaker@operationunite.co; 530-263-1007 

132 Ideas & Teamwork, What a Combination!

The water issues are the most important in the community. Water is the under girding of the entire community infrastructure. Without the water, in particular potable water, everything else becomes unnecessary.  Water is taken for granted way too frequently. Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing brings you another water relationship that has a personally significant impact to your life. 

Stephen J. Baker, producer of Operation Unite’s Living Water® radio series, “Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing”, has completed 258 episodes from around the world since 2006. Each story is a real circumstance of one water relationship that exists in the world.  Contact Operation Unite® if you would like your organization’s water relationship to be shared with the masses.  

Bringing People Together to Solve Water Problems 

Operation Unite®; stevebaker@operationunite.co; 530-263-1007