Oregon Water Futures Project Report
Oregon Water Futures Project Report
This report summarizes the results of the outreach and learnings from community engagement with culturally specific communities in Oregon.
The Oregon Water Futures Project is a collaboration between the University of Oregon, water and environmental justice interests, Indigenous peoples, communities of color, and low-income communities. Through a water justice lens, we aim to impact how the future of water in Oregon is imagined through storytelling, capacity building, relationship building, policymaking, and community-centered advocacy at the state and local level.
Hear about the Oregon Water Futures Report 2020-21 Findings in this short summary video presented by some of the OWF Project team
In 2020, project partners co-conceptualized and facilitated a series of conversations with Native, Indigenous Latin American, Latinx, Black, Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, Arab, and Somali communities, including webinars on Oregon water systems, phone interviews, and virtual online gatherings. These conversations lifted up culturally specific ways of interacting with drinking water and bodies of water; concerns around water quality and cost; resiliency in the face of challenges to access water resources essential for physical, emotional, and spiritual health; and a desire for water resource education and to be better equipped to advocate for water resources.
Lead Authors and Coordination Team
Dr. Alaí Reyes-Santos, University of Oregon
Cheyenne Holliday, University of Oregon
Stacey Dalgaard, Oregon Environmental Council
Taren Evans, Coalition of Communities of Color
Kristiana Teige Witherill, Willamette Partnership
Read the summary of this report.
We’ve provided this summary in six different languages for communities across Oregon.