KPBS News
Water Rates Rise Again
By: Alison St. John
San Diego City
Council will vote today on raising water rates. Residents and businesses
testified Monday at a hearing on the rate hikes. KPBS reporter Alison
St John has more.
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Voice of San Diego
Not Too Freaked Out About Recycled Sewage
By: Rob Davis
If San Diego residents are freaked out about using purified sewage as
a drinking-water source, you wouldn't have known it Monday.
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Report outlines how to adapt to climate change
By: Mike Lee
Scientists and policy
experts yesterday unveiled San Diego County's first blueprint for adapting
to rising sea levels, altered rainfall and other “catastrophic”
changes linked to global warming.
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North County Times
Study says county to get hotter, sea to rise 18 inches
by 2050
By: Dave Downey
The sea level along the San Diego County coast may be a foot and a half
higher, temperatures may be 4.5 degrees hotter and the region may have
18 percent less water than it needs in 2050, all a result of climate change,
according to a report released Monday by the San Diego Foundation.
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North County Times
Letter to the editor: Where will water for new residents
come from?
"A water shortage," "Water to be rationed": These
are the headlines daily.
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Riverside Press Enterprise
Editorial: Skimpy science?
Federal regulators should use sound science as the basis for determining
the risk from chemicals in the water supply.
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Los Angeles Times
Is climate change to blame for string of Southland fires?
Scientists say no definitive link has been demonstrated between rising
temperatures and wildfire occurrence in Southern California's chaparral
country.
By: Bettina Boxall
Is climate change
to blame for the string of destructive fires that have hit Southern California
in recent years?
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Fresno Bee
San Joaquin River plan aims to appease districts
Waterway dispute finally settled after two decades.
By: Carol Reiter
A federal bill
that would restore water flows and return salmon to the San Joaquin River
had some local water districts worried.
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San Francisco Chronicle
State unprepared for effects of warming, report says
By: Jane Kay
Despite its tough goals to reduce greenhouse gases, California is not
prepared to deal with the flooding, coastal erosion and loss of wildlife
habitat that scientists are predicting in the coming decades as a result
of higher global temperatures, a new report says.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Governor in limelight as climate summit host
By: Matthew Yi
Hundreds of
dignitaries, industry representatives and scientists are expected to gather
today in Southern California for an international summit on global warming
hosted by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Manteca Bulletin
Editorial: We're still wasting water entering a possible
3rd straight year of drought
By: Dennis Wyatt
The drought of 1976-77
sent California to the edge.
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Sacramento Bee
Editorial: Invest stimulus in public works
Voters may have
voted for "change" on Nov. 4, but for now, they are stuck with
the same old gridlock in Washington.
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Sierra Sun
Solar cycles and Sierra weather: Are they related?
By: Mark McLaughlin
It’s November
and skiers and snowboarders are biting at the bit to get out on the slopes.
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Christian Science Monitor
Schwarzenegger says California must prepare for warming
By: Eoin O'Carroll
California Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has directed state agencies to prepare for the
impacts of global warming – particularly rising sea levels –
on the state’s economy, water supply, and natural resources.
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McClatchy Newspapers
San Joaquin River restoration bill postponed until 2009
By: Michael Doyle
WASHINGTON —The
Senate will postpone until early next year action on a big public lands
bill that includes efforts to restore the San Joaquin River, lawmakers
decided Monday.
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