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"Five Minutes" is an ongoing series of podcasts featuring a variety of voices and perspectives on issues affecting the Edisto River and its watershed.

SC Water Resources Conference: Video of "Day 2 Plenary Q&A Session is well worth watching. Important ideas are presented about water policy and planning priorities from SC conservation leaders. The other video of Plenary Sessions of the Conference are informative as well.

Apr 24, 2014 -- Nice editorial in the Post & Courier from Norman Brunswig of Audubon South Carolina ...  "Save the endangered Edisto River while we still can"

Brunswig says, "The only thing small about these [water] issues is the amount of water in the beautiful, little Edisto, and how very little extra it has to donate to non-ecological functions, particularly at its lowest flows. In drought years, the very ones during which the irrigators will want it most, the Edisto all but dries up. Without water, there is no Edisto River."

Below is the press release from American Rivers:

http://www.americanrivers.org/Edisto

Washington, D.C.- American Rivers named the South Fork Edisto River among America’s Most Endangered Rivers® of 2014 (on April 8, 2014), shining a national spotlight on excessive withdrawals that take too much water out of the river, threatening river health and downstream water users.