NBC News (San Diego)
Experts: 'Rainy Season' Won't Be
Hopes for a
wet winter in San Diego are rapidly drying up.
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Voice of San Diego
This Little City Goes Back to Market
By: Rani Gupta
San Diego Mayor
Jerry Sanders announced today that the city will conduct its first public
bond offering in more than five years.
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Voice of San Diego
Honolulu Feels Our Sewage Pain
By: Rob Davis
The
mayor says a sewage-treatment plant upgrade could cost $1.2 billion. That
rate payers will be saddled with hefty bill increases.
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KPBS News
Big Plans To Restore San Diego Bay
Federal Grants Help Foot Bill
By: Ed Joyce
Two
federal agencies have given the Port of San Diego $2 million in grants
for wetlands restoration projects in San Diego Bay. KPBS Reporter Ed Joyce
has details.
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Pasadena Star News
Schwarzenegger: state could use $44 billion from stimulus
California
has $44 billion in infrastructure projects throughout the state that could
be aided by a federal economic stimulus package, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
wrote yesterday in a letter to president-elect Barack Obama.
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Central Valley Business Times
McNerney opposes peripheral canal by any
other name
Central
Valley congressman Jerry McNerney is urging one of President-elect Obama’s
appointees to oppose a new attempt at a peripheral canal to siphon freshwater
from the Delta to Southern California.
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Sacramento Bee
Nature Conservancy backs Delta canal, with conditions
By: Matt Weiser
One
of the nation's largest environmental groups has decided to support building
a controversial new water canal around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
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California Farm Bureau Federation
Septic tanks are being targeted by state
water board
By: Steve Adler
The
State Water Resources Control Board is calling them Onsite Wastewater
Treatment Systems, which basically is just a fancy way of saying septic
tanks.
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Department of Water Resources
La Nina? - conditions only, Western US
snowpack dry, short-term forecast, water supply
By: DWR meteorologist Elissa Lynn
The
last newsletter appropriately explained the cool equatorial ocean conditions
now in place, and gave links for graphs of falling ocean temperatures.
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USA Today
California's snowpack levels breed new
water worries
By: William M. Welch
LOS
ANGELES — Skiers are enjoying the early winter snows on California's
mountains, but down closer to sea level are big worries that the snowfall
and its spring runoff won't be enough to relieve two years of drought.
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Associated Press
LA water cops hunt wasteful faucets, sprinklers
By: Noaki Schwartz
LOS
ANGELES — The green thumbs who keep lawns lush and flora flourishing
in the city have found a new foe among the aphids, white flies and other
yard pests – the water police.
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Associated Press
Calif. congressman lobbies Obama aide on
delta
SACRAMENTO—A
Democratic congressman is worried about plans to pipe Northern California
water around the delta and wants the incoming Obama administration to
take a go-slow approach.
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