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A white, oval shape logo, with the title WaterShare centered in green letters. There is a blue drop of water and the title.



A graphic of a dark green banner with gold letters entitled Sharing Water with Nature.

A silt covered gravel bed

A watercolor picture of the layers of a streambed. Yellow sand on the bottom is overlain with a layer of brown dirt (silt), a layer of gray boulders, and a small blue stream.

Weak flows in a depleted river deposit fine silt that clogs and covers the stream gravel where salmon nest.