 newsroom newsroom in the news working together is key to providing water for the future by lorna stickel the columbia river from its headwaters in british columbia to its mouth on oregon s north coast is the second largest river in the country the willamette river whose valley is home to the majority of oregon s population is volumetrically the 10th largest river in the us with that amount of water flowing through the state it s hard to imagine that oregon is going to run out of water any time soon particularly west of the cascades read the full article in the sustainable industries magazine  read   news  