San Diego Union-Tribune
Saving Batiquitos Lagoon
Too much sediment collecting, which could threaten habitat
By: Michael Burge
CARLSBAD
– Batiquitos Lagoon looks healthy today, 10 years after a $57 million
restoration project. Water birds wheel over its clear blue waters and
grasses teem on its muddy shore.
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Board rejects proposed fine for lagoon
spill
By: Michael Burge
CARLSBAD
– A proposed $700,000 penalty that Vista and Carlsbad would have
paid for last year's massive sewage spill into Buena Vista Lagoon is off
the table.
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Water Everywhere: San Diego's special ingredients
This just in
from KPBS: "A variety of pharmaceuticals, including antibiotics and
sex hormones, have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least
41 million Americans." And: "The study found traces of a mild
tranquilizer, anti-seizure medication, and ibuprofen in San Diego tap
water."
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Voice of San Diego
How to Make Your Yard Drought-Resistant
By: Rob Davis
Long
before the endangered delta smelt threatened San Diego's water supply,
Dayna Hydrick dug up her lawn in University City and replaced it with
sweet-smelling sage and permeable stone pavers.
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Voice of San Diego
Native Plant Sale
By: Rob Davis
If you've
read my story from today and gotten all excited about tearing up your
lawn and replacing it with drought-tolerant plants, the Water Conservation
Garden at Cuyamaca College has just the thing for you.
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Voice of San Diego
More Water Cuts
By: Rob Davis
A federal decision
to protect the delta smelt, a tiny endangered fish, has again reduced
water exports from the delta. The state Department of Water Resources
announced today that the pumps' flow will be cut to 11,000 gallons per
second because increasing numbers of adult delta smelt are being found
near the pumps, which sit northwest of Tracy.
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San Diego Daily Transcript
Why there's no delta smelt appeal
By: Thomas D. Elias
It may
be the oddest legal situation seen in California in a generation. A federal
district judge makes a decision that could adversely affect tens of millions
of people and businesses, but no one files an appeal.
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Imperial Valley Press
Voice: Love that vision and planning
The following
is offered in support of your Opinion piece about Baja California Gov.
Osuna Millan’s criticism of the concrete lining of 19 miles of the
All-American Canal.
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Desert Sun
New law will affect landscape watering
in Indio
By: Xochitl Pena
Inefficient
landscape irrigation that causes runoff, low head drainage and conditions
where water flows onto roadways are prohibited.
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Los Angeles Times
A way of life drying up; Traditional zanjeros have long
shepherded water in the West. In a region ravaged by drought, they're
being bypassed by automation
By: Mike Anderson
HOLTVILLE, CALIF.
-- Daybreak in the Carrot Capital of the World and the horizon is streaked
with lilac clouds, the air thick with the smell of manure. Jose Romo climbs
into a pickup with a steaming cup of coffee to ward off the chill and
begins his daily race with water.
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Stockton Record
Parts of Central Valley Project nominated for historic
status
By: Dana M. Nichols
TRACY - When is a
concrete ditch historic?
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Stockton Record
Salmon fishing could be halted
By: Alex Breitler
The
North Coast fishing industry certainly doesn't need any more bad news,
but that's what appears to be brewing.
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Sacramento Union
State Superior Court Rules in Favor of Proposition 98
SACRAMENTO –
Last week, proponents of Proposition 98 announced a major court victory
for California property owners.
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Sacramento Business Journal
State cuts Delta water pumping by 25 percent
The state Department
of Water Resources cut the water pumping from the Delta by 25 percent
Thursday to comply with a federal court order to protect Delta smelt.
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Nature Conservancy
Editorial: Anticipating another salmon disaster
The
North Coast fishing industry certainly doesn't need any more bad news,
but that's what appears to be brewing.
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California Progress Report
An AB 32 for California Water?
Key legislation answers governor’s ambitious call to reduce water
demand
By: Traci Sheehan
In a
recent letter to Senators Perata, Steinberg, and Machado, Governor Schwarzenegger
announced his intention to call for a 20 percent reduction in per-capita
water use in California by 2020. The Governor’s ambitious call for
a significant reduction in water demand means that there is a new opportunity
for a major step ahead in environmental policy.
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California Progress Report
California and the Feds Fail to Explore Relationship
Between Water Exports and Salmon Collapse
Emergency Salmon Fishing Closure on California and Oregon Coast
By: Dan Bacher
State
and federal fishery managers meeting in Sacramento this morning imposed
an emergency closure on seven salmon fishing zones in California and Oregon
to protect Sacramento River chinook salmon, now in a state of unprecedented
collapse.
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Associated Press
Ask AP: Drugs in Drinking Water
Let's say an
inspection turned up traces of medications in the water you drink —
something that's happened in several U.S. cities, according to a recent
series of stories by The Associated Press.
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Associated Press
Winter warmer than average worldwide, government says
WASHINGTON –
Winter storms and snow notwithstanding, this winter was warmer than average
worldwide, the government reported yesterday.
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Associated Press
Salmon collapse cancels early fishing
By: Jeff Barnard
Fisheries managers
have canceled the early season of ocean fishing for chinook salmon off
the coast of Oregon and Northern California because of a collapse of stocks
in California rivers.
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Huffington Post
Water: The New Energy Crisis?
By: Paige Donner
"Rain
is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth
green, causing the birds to sing."
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