There's water on the move in Powell Butte April 30 2021 Keep your eyes open as, one by one, there are little faith oases that start opening back up After watching the farmers toil in their dusty dry fields in late winter, I always feel a sense of relief on the day that the water appears in the irrigation canals. Swollen and swift, the ditches that were, minutes before, nothing more than a good-for-nothing gully, are now delivering life-giving water to hundreds of square miles of land and cattle. It's a mini-miracle to watch the dry and tired land drink deep and thirst no more.