Modesto Bee
Only snow-deep, Sierra survey is cause for drought concern
By: John Holland
Frank Gehrke
of the Department of Water Resources checks the snowpack depth near Echo
Summit on Dec. 30.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Many delta islands may be lost
By: Kelly Zito
Walnut Grove, Sacramento
County -- Two decades ago, water breached a levee on Tyler Island, 8,800
acres along the northeastern edge of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River
Delta, wiping out crops, damaging buildings and nearly destroying the
Mello family's farming business.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Power plant has no plans to stop killing fish
By: Robert Selna
Despite
legal threats from the city of San Francisco and protests from environmentalists,
regulators have no plans to stop a local power plant from using a cooling
system that kills fish, discharges heated water into the bay and stirs
up sediment that can be harmful both to wildlife and people.
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Sacramento Bee
Sea lions along Sacramento River blamed
for salmon decline
By: Matt Weiser
Ask
a Sacramento angler for reasons why Central Valley salmon populations
have crashed over the past two years, and this is likely to be high on
the list:
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Tahoe Daily Tribune
Lake Tahoe climate change plan to be revealed
in 2009
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency at work on solutions
By: Craig Thomas
LAKE
TAHOE BASIN — As California Attorney General and climate change
crusader Jerry Brown increases the pressure on local planners to consider
future projections for the effects of global warming, more and more government
agencies in the Tahoe Basin are integrating climate change into their
agendas for the coming years.
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New York Times
Signs of Another California Drought Year
By: Felicity Barringer
SAN
FRANCISCO — California, just finished with its second consecutive
year of drought, might well be facing a third. If so, state authorities
may be forced to impose water rationing on farmers, homes and businesses.
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Capital Press
Fiscal woes affecting water quality projects
IPM, erosion control and more halted due to lack of funding
By: Cecilia Parsons
Ag water-quality
improvement projects have been halted due to the state budget crisis.
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Associated Press
Laser experiment aimed at saving farm water
By: John Rogers
LOS
ANGELES--Seventy-six years after the invention of the modern sprinkler
helped revolutionize farming, a professor of environmental engineering
is pointing a laser beam across an alfalfa crop in Southern California's
bone-dry Imperial Valley, looking for a better way to conserve the millions
of gallons of water sprayed each year on thirsty crops.
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