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Waters and Tradition in the Arctic
Water Policy Consulting, LLC focuses on water and human rights issues in Alaska. We strive to promote the long-term sustainability of water resources in the Western United States and Alaska for the benefit of fish and wildlife populations, habitat, aesthetics, recreation, and traditional and cultural activities, using the principles of democracy, environmental justice, and sound ecology as our guide.
Overlookin Kachemak Bay, AK - Photo by Hal Shepherd
Our Vision
Consultation
Consult with the public, conservation organizations, governmental agencies and Alaska Native communities in protection of water resources and climate change adaption and mitigation.
Promote
Promote tribal sovereignty and the implementation of the federal trust responsibility to protect human health and welfare and subsistence resources.
Sustainability
Ensure the long-term sustainability of fish and wildlife populations by reducing take and habitat fragmentation and loss.
Tribal Treaty Rights
Support traditional gathering, fishing and hunting practices and aboriginal tribal treaty rights.
Environmental Justice
Promote and pursue democracy and environmental justice principles in the management of natural resources.
Reduce Climate Change
Work to not only reduce the impacts of global climate change on our water resources, but to reduce climate change itself through the use of water as a tool against carbon producing industrial practices.
Conservation
Work with conservation and tribal organizations and federal and state water management agencies and private corporations to promote conservation, rather than uncontrolled development and resource abuse as the most practicable and economic tool we can apply towards the impacts of global warming and water shortages.
Citizens Rights
Promote actions and decisions on water management issues that prevent harm to the long-term viability of fish and wildlife populations, citizen rights to clean water, and the rights of native peoples to maintain tradition and culture.
WPC is located in Homer Alaska on the traditional lands of the Dena'ina, Alutiiq and Sugpiaq people of Alaska's southcentral region which have been in community here long before the occupations of settler culture, past and present. The Native place name for Cook Inlet is Tikahtnu and the Indigenous peoples of this land never surrendered lands or resources to Russia or the United States. Sacred relationships to traditional lands and ways of life endure to this day and are essential matters in any developing environmental or economic solution for Alaska's future generations.