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Kate Fitzpatrick, executive director of the Deschutes River Conservancy, talks with Source Publisher Aaron Switzer about the new water bank pilot project for the North Unit Irrigation District, which allows farmers to obtain water from other water rights holders.

The program is aimed at easing some of the pain of ongoing drought for farmers who saw field lay fallow in 2020 and 2021 due to irrigation shortages.

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This article appears in Source Weekly February 3, 2022.

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Listen: Sharing water with Kate Fitzpatrick of the Deschutes River Conservancy 🎧

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
February 3, 2022

<h1>Listen: Sharing water with Kate Fitzpatrick of the Deschutes River Conservancy 🎧</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />February 3, 2022</p> <p><span class="fdnDropCap">K</span>ate Fitzpatrick, executive director of the <a href="https://www.deschutesriver.org/" target="_blank">Deschutes River Conservancy</a>, talks with Source Publisher Aaron Switzer about the new water bank pilot project for the <a href="https://northunitid.com/" target="_blank">North Unit Irrigation </a>District, which allows farmers to obtain water from other water rights holders.</p> <p>The program is aimed at easing some of the pain of ongoing drought for farmers who saw field lay fallow in 2020 and 2021 due to irrigation shortages.</p> <p><b><i>Listen now: </i></b></p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container align"> <div style="font-size: 10px;color: #cccccc;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396" title="Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396/bend-dont-break-sharing-water-with-kate-fitzpatrick-of-the-deschutes-river-conservancy" title="Bend Don&#x27;t Break: Sharing water with Kate Fitzpatrick of the Deschutes River Conservancy" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Bend Don&#x27;t Break: Sharing water with Kate Fitzpatrick of the Deschutes River Conservancy</a></div> </p></div> <div class="wp-block-group fdn-after-article-related"> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Related Stories</h3> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/listen-sharing-water-with-kate-fitzpatrick-of-the-deschutes-river-conservancy-16201770/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=26359&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/listen-sharing-water-with-kate-fitzpatrick-of-the-deschutes-river-conservancy-16201770/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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