The Walla Walla Basin Water Management Initiative (WMI) is a project to initiate a partnership between the Walla Walla Basin stakeholders, including water-right holders, and the Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology). The project is currently in the conceptual stage as stakeholders within the Walla Walla Basin begin to engage with Ecology.

Water users and managers, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, watershed planning leads, local governments, community and environmental organizations, and technical experts representing the Walla Walla Basin, assembled with Ecology to facilitate the Water Management Initiative (WMI) in the Walla Walla Basin. At the core of the WMI is a vision of a Basin-wide coordinated and cooperative water management system in which all water users benefit by working together while enhancing instream flows for fish.

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	Watershed Management Initiative Monitoring Project Phase I December 2008	Overview Task 1: Bibliography Project Task 2: Digitizing existing geological maps and site-specific surface-groundwater monitoring data sites into GIS format Task 3: WMI Technical Team Coordination and Monitoring Work Plan Development Task 4: Integrate identified priority datasets and information into GIS geospatial database for Phase II assessments and potential numerical modeling Task 5: WMI planning/policy and WMI monitoring integration and coordination with Oregon Task 6: Surface-groundwater monitoring sites preparation and deployment Task 7: Walla Walla Basin Suprabasalt Sediment Subsurface Mapping
Water Management Initiative - Technical Review Team		Water Management Initiative - Technical Review Team

	Managing Many Waters: An assessment of capacities for implementing water and fish improvements in the Walla Walla Basin July 2007	The purpose of this report is to provide information and analysis that will help watershed managers and the basin community enhance existing coordination and governance efforts to achieve on-the-ground water and fish improvements in the basin. Full Report (805 kb)
	The Walla Walla Water Management Initiative: Insights on Design and Implementation from Innovative Water Management Efforts January 2007	This report attempts to describe the purposes, goals, and components of the Water Management Initiative as currently conceived by those in the basin and to provide insights and experiences from similar efforts elsewhere. Full Report (798 kb) Executive Summary (122 kb)