This week, Thornburgh Resort filed for a temporary transfer of 200 acre feet of water to North Unit Irrigation District. NUID is suffering significant water shortage this year. Thornburgh offered the water, and completion of the transfer application in an effort to set an example for sharing water basin-wide in times of shortage.
Thornburgh’s developer, Kameron DeLashmutt offered the transfer, and other potential sources of water, to assist downstream community members and honor his family’s legacy of farming and ranching within the Deschutes basin. “I recognize NUID has significant greater needs for water this season and beyond, but hopefully others will think about ways to move water to those in need in a similar manner this season and beyond,” DeLashmutt said. “We look forward to a quick approval from Oregon Water Resources.”
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Billionaire developers buy up all the water for their giant houses on their water-guzzling golf courses, and then show “compassion for others” by selling 200 acre feet back to the water district. This is the new reality, and Oregon (in fact, ALL the states) should recognize that this paradigm is our future unless local, state, and federal governments make the decision that water is a life-giving right, not something to be doled out by the oligarchs.