The term Columbia Basin is used to refer not only to the entire drainage basin but also to subsets of the river's full watershed, such as the relatively flat and unforested area in eastern Washington bounded by the Cascades, the Rocky Mountains, and the Blue Mountains.

The Columbia, Colorado, and Mississippi watersheds meet at Three Waters Mountain in the Wind River Range of To the south, in Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, the Columbia watershed is divided from the Great Basin, whose several watersheds are endorheic, not emptying into any ocean but rather drying up or sinking into sumps.

Great Basin watersheds that share a border with the Columbia watershed include Harney Basin, Humboldt River, and Great Salt Lake.

To the west and southwest the Columbia watershed borders a number of smaller watersheds that drain to the Pacific Ocean, such as the Klamath River in Oregon and California and the Puget Sound Basin in Washington.

Examples can be seen in the flood regions result from glacial Lake Missoula, which created the channeled scablands in the Columbia Basin region of eastern Washington.

* Queen Charlotte Basin, the continental shelf offshore of the British Columbia mainland

* Columbia Basin College, a mid-sized two-year institution now offering a four-year Bachelor of Applied Science program in Applied Management ( 8, 000 students ).

Columbia Basin College also offers higher education opportunities for residents of the Tri-Cities, as well as the Columbia Basin from Mattawa, Washington ( 50 miles away ) to Umatilla, Oregon ( 30 miles away ).

It is sponsored by Pasco, Kennewick, and Richland's school districts, Battelle, Washington State University Tri-Cities, and Columbia Basin College.

* Columbia Basin College, a community college in Pasco, Washington

Within North America, there are northern pike populations in Illinois, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Montana, Maryland, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Indiana, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, Iowa, Utah, Northern New Mexico and Arizona, Colorado, New York, Idaho, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Québec ( pike are rare in British Columbia and east coast provinces ), Alaska, the Ohio Valley, the upper Mississippi River and its tributaries, the Great Lakes Basin and surrounding states, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and parts of Oklahoma.

While Salmon and Steelhead returns to the John Day Basin experienced a sharp decline during the past 50 years, mainly due to the construction of large dams on the Columbia River, the major watercourses of John Day Basin remain free of physical obstructions, and the numbers of returning Salmon and Steelhead have improved in recent years, marking some of the best fish runs recorded in the past half-century.

* Columbia Basin District – Quincy, Ephrata, Moses Lake, Coulee City area

* Jack Keahey, a St. Joseph native, was the president of the Tensas Basin Levee Board, based in Columbia, the seat of Caldwell Parish.

Sometime after journeying around the Willamette Valley and Columbia Basin, Moore bought title to approx.

Othello refers to the city as being in the " Heart " of the Columbia Basin Project.

In the early 1950s, the Columbia Basin Project brought irrigation to the Othello area, increasing both agriculture and commerce.

The reservoirs behind the dams made it possible to irrigate thousands of additional acres in the Columbia Basin.

Ephrata then developed as a trade and service center for cattle and sheep ranches in the area until the construction of the Columbia Basin Reclamation Project.

Shortly after the Bureau of Reclamation was founded, it investigated a scheme for pumping water from the Columbia River to irrigate parts of central Washington.

In 1933, Washington governor Clarence Martin set up the Columbia Basin Commission to oversee the dam project, and Reclamation was selected to oversee construction.

In 1943, Congress authorized the Columbia Basin Project and the Bureau of Reclamation began construction of irrigation facilities in 1948.

BPA also coordinates with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation to regulate flow of water in the Columbia River and to carry out environmental projects such as salmon restoration.

According to the federal Bureau of Reclamation the yearly value of the Columbia Basin Project is $ 630 million in irrigated crops, $ 950 million in power production, $ 20 million in flood damage prevention, and $ 50 million in recreation.

It then became part of the Columbia Basin Project, built and managed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation.

Upon his entry into the Senate, Smith was assigned to the committees on the District of Columbia, Geological Survey, Public Land, Irrigation and Reclamation, Railroads The 62nd United States Congress was in its second session at the time of his entry and, with the 1912 U. S. Presidential election approaching, the new Senator found the Republican majority split between Roosevelt and Taft supporters.

In early 1942, the laboratory group at Columbia was asked to move to the University of Chicago as part of the Manhattan Project.

Kermit was initially developed by and distributed for free by the Columbia University, until 1986 when Columbia founded the Kermit Project which took over development and started charging fees for commercial use.

In 2011-06-21, Columbia University's Kermit Project released a beta version of C-Kermit v9. 0 under an Open Source Revised 3-Clause BSD License

* The Kermit Project, the successor to Columbia University development

In late 1943, Fuchs transferred along with Peierls to Columbia University, in New York City, to work on the Manhattan Project.

Also in 2000, she agreed to act as the artist and architect for the Confluence Project, a series of outdoor installations at historical points along the Columbia River and Snake River in the states of Washington and Oregon.

Interview with the project leader of the Sea Around Us Project, University of British Columbia.

The sponges form reefs off the coast of British Columbia and Washington State, which are studied in the Sponge Reef Project.

* Christian Siriano, fashion designer and winner of the fourth season of Project Runway ( born in Columbia )

* Crossroads on the Columbia Preserve America Project Interpretive Section

* Crossroads on the Columbia Preserve America Project collection, exhibits, and images from museum and private collections covering Stevens County

* Eugene T. Booth-Rhodes Scholar who constructed the Columbia University cyclotron and worked on the Manhattan Project

In 2006, the Internet company Google began building a major data center, known locally as Project 02, along the Columbia River in The Dalles, using the area's reliable hydroelectric power and the underutilized fiber optic capacity of the area.

At the turn of the 20th Century, irrigation projects, including the Columbia Basin Project east of the region, opened the door for farming the barren land.

The town was established to support the local agricultural community which was being opened to irrigation through the Columbia Basin Project.

The Columbia Basin Irrigation Project does not deliver water to Kahlotus.

The Columbia Basin Irrigation Project brought water to the area in 1948.

Before it was dammed in the early 1900s and then incorporated into the Columbia Basin Project, Moses Lake was a smaller, salty, shallow lake.

When the Columbia Basin Project was completed in the mid-1950s, farms expanded by thousands of acres, growing potatoes, corn, onions, carrots and sugar beets.

A large number of Hispanics came to work in the fields that opened to more diverse agriculture after the federal Columbia Basin Project brought irrigation to the area.