Washington Water Trust - Wildern Design & Interactive

Brand Story

Washington
Water Trust

Audience Engagement Via Visual Storytelling

WWT’s mission is to protect and restore healthy rivers and streams across Washington so that fish, farms and communities can thrive for generations. The goal with their website redesign was to create an engaging and impactful experience to motivate their audience to get involved. Wildern both designed & developed their new website including UI/UX, infographics and illustration to tell a compelling & motivational story.

Our Focus Areas

We focus our work in the following four areas:

Helping Rivers Flow
Reconnecting Water in the Landscape
Planning for Future Water Use
Developing Alternative Water Sources

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Our Approach

Collaborative
We engage all water users for collective buy in

Creative
Our team crafts smart, evidence-based solutions

Transformative
We create lasting change for a rapidly changing world

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Our Impact

Since 1998, we have worked across the state from the San Juan Islands to the Palouse restoring water to thousands of river miles in more than 50 rivers and streams.

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Our Impact

Since 1998, we have worked across the state from the San Juan Islands to the Palouse restoring water to thousands of river miles in more than 50 rivers and streams.

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What's Impacting our Water Supply?

Select a season to see how Climate Change impacts it

Fall - Winter

Heavy rainfall feeds our rivers and streams, and snow and ice accumulates in the mountains.

Higher temperatures cause less rainfall in the lowlands and less snowfall in the mountains, reducing the snowpack.

Spring - Summer

The snowpack melts to feed our rivers and streams when rainfall is scarce.

Increasing temperatures melt snowpack, reduces supply to our rivers and streams, and leads to drought-like conditions.

Putting Water Back Into Our Rivers and Streams

Land & Water

Landscape and forest degradation has reduced the land’s ability to naturally store and release water

WWT restores ecosystem function through improved forest management and wetland and floodplain restoration

It's All Connected

Depleted groundwater supplies negatively impact stream flows

WWT replenishes groundwater which maintains the water table and infiltrates into rivers and streams restoring stream flows

Farms & Fish

Water used for irrigation leaves less water instream for fish

Using the state’s Trust Water Rights Program, WWT protects water instream and restores flows

WWT helps farmers conserve water and switch to environment-friendly water sources

WWT facilitates improvements to farms, such as water storage and irrigation ditch piping to keep more water instream

In drought years, WWT keeps water instream for fish using emergency water leases with farmers

Cities & Communities

Washington’s cities are growing rapidly – how do we meet their long-term water needs?

WWT collaborates with municipalities on long-term water management planning

To balance and redistribute water across the landscape, WWT operates water banks

WWT is exploring new water sources such as recycled water

Putting Water Back Into Our Rivers and Streams

Land & Water

Landscape and forest degradation has reduced the land’s ability to naturally store and release water

WWT restores ecosystem function through improved forest management and wetland and floodplain restoration

It's All Connected

Depleted groundwater supplies negatively impact stream flows

WWT replenishes groundwater which maintains the water table and infiltrates into rivers and streams restoring stream flows

Farms & Fish

Water used for irrigation leaves less water instream for fish

Using the state’s Trust Water Rights Program, WWT protects water instream and restores flows

WWT helps farmers conserve water and switch to environment-friendly water sources

WWT facilitates improvements to farms, such as water storage and irrigation ditch piping to keep more water instream

In drought years, WWT keeps water instream for fish using emergency water leases with farmers

Cities & Communities

Washington’s cities are growing rapidly – how do we meet their long-term water needs?

WWT collaborates with municipalities on long-term water management planning

To balance and redistribute water across the landscape, WWT operates water banks

WWT is exploring new water sources such as recycled water