Water Budgets and Sustainability: Starting with

Stratigraphy

Cailin Huyck Orr

School of the Environment

Washington State University

Systems, Society, Sustainability & Geosciences: InTegrate workshop July 25, 2012

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Palouse Basin Aquifer Committee website

Cross section of the Moscow – Pullman areaCompiled by John H. Bush and Dean L. Garwood 2005

Grande Ronde Aquifer well levels1938 – 2008 at WSU

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