130 A Challenge for Montana Water Rights, Part II

Our streams, creek, rivers and lakes were once thought to be independent of water that has been found buried in underground geologic formations. Today in Montana, this perception has changed. Water on the earth’s surface is considered to be connected with underground aquifers and this new understanding is beginning to play out in how water rights in Montana are handled. 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 

107 High Altitude Oceans

The summit of Mount Everest is composed of a two hundred fifty-million-year-old ocean created limestone. Darwin found marine fossils at the 12,000-foot elevation in the Andes. It’s unlikely that the oceans rose up to these heights during prehistoric global warming events so what really happened? 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 

175 A Watery Economy

Water is, for the most part, a transparent resource that is invisible to your typical American. Its tangible contributions in our lives are eventually seen when the resource is taken away. Paul Jewel, Kittitas County Commissioner, feels that people can take water for granted.  It truly is our single, biggest economic indicator. Most people don’t appreciate that. 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 

206 The Salton Sea

When I think of big lakes in California, I think of Lake Tahoe. But there is a much larger lake than even that!  Adding water to an otherwise dry and barren desert has made life come alive at the Salton Sea. 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 

190 A Most Notable Moment

Water appreciation comes in many forms and experiences. As our experiences with water mount, it can shape our lives in many ways. Water experiences started with Soon Joon Yoon 29 years ago in South Korea. Sometimes, it’s the experience of not having water that sets the stage for recognizing the value of water.  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 

209 The Value of a Levee

If you own a home that requires a lot more work than you have money right now, how do you fix your home? Finding the funds for levee improvements is a lot like managing your own home. You can still live in it as long as things don’t take a turn for the worse. 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 

113 Latino Coalition of Water

I first met Mario Santoyo in the Central Valley in 2009.  Water shortages created severe impacts resulting from a multi-year drought and changes in the Endangered Species Act. Mario led the California Latino Water Coalition which focused on the impacts experienced by the farmworkers and other Latino communities. Water’s relationships are not limited by nationality, ethnic origin, or any other status.   Mario explains how this organization came about and how he articulates who they are really trying to help. 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 

135 A Common Link

It doesn’t work to only have an environmental agency; “take care of the environment.” Gabe Olsen     saw a country that doesn’t have any environmental enforcement, like Kenya, and compared their environmental successes with the staunch environmental enforcement present in America. The current American solutions still aren’t enough to safeguard the environment. Communities need to come together, politically and non-politically.   Everyone has an interaction with the environment and, many times, we take for granted these wonderful benefits in our lives.   He witnessed the tribes of Kenya coming together through a common link; water. Community ownership and sustainable development ultimately are achieved in the long run when environment comes first. 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 

105 An Atmospheric River

Rivers have always been associated with a large natural stream that eventually empties into the ocean, lake or other body of water. That’s easy to visualize but can you imagine an atmospheric river. 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 

127 Build it and They Will Come

“Build it and they will come”, is a cliché that describes society’s confidence that if you put the effort in, up front, success will follow.  Montana is one example of a state that has seen an increase in population that depends on private groundwater wells. The big question has become; “How do you know when you have gone too far?” 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