Ramona Sentinel
CWA OKs rates for ag customers opting out of discount
program
By: Joe Naiman
San Diego County
Water Authority set transitional Special Agricultural Water Rates (SAWR)
for customers who opt out of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern
California’s Interim Agricultural Water Program.
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Voice of San Diego
Where Water Reuse Isn't a Dirty Word
By: Rob Davis
Tucked behind
evergreens, down a long lane in an otherwise anonymous stretch of this
Washington, D.C. suburb south of Dulles International Airport, sits a
facility that provides San Diego with the best evidence that it's safe
to fill drinking water reservoirs with purified sewage.
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Helix district sued over habitat
Partnership objects to delayed plans
By: Anne Krueger
SAN DIEGO COURTS
— The Helix Water District has been sued by a business partnership
that claims the water district is obstructing plans to create a wildlife
habitat and water recharge basin in Lakeside's El Monte Valley.
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Concerns raised on power plant
Developers defend coastal proposal in public discussion with residents
By: Michael Burge
CARLSBAD
— Critics of a proposed power plant on the south shore of Agua Hedionda
Lagoon in Carlsbad grilled the developers during a seven-hour workshop
yesterday.
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San Diego Union-Tribune
On a rescue operation
SeaWorld joins effort to treat, release ailing pelicans
By: Mike Lee
Sea
bird experts up and down the West Coast are sounding the alarm about hundreds
of California brown pelicans dying or becoming injured by bad weather
or a mysterious malady.
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Riverside Press Enterprise
La Niña just part of SoCal water picture
By: Mark Muckenfuss
Forecasters
are worried about another dry winter for Southern California.
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Pasadena Star News
MWD vice chairman removed from water board
By: Jennifer McLain
EL MONTE
- An elected water official who has served for 16 years on the board to
Southern California's largest water board was replaced on Tuesday.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Forum: Shutting off the water pumps to save delta smelt
unwarranted
By: Craig Manson & Brandon Middleton
There's
great cause for concern over the biological opinion issued by the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service in the form of a new rules to protect the delta
smelt, a fish species that is listed as threatened under the federal Endangered
Species Act.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Forum: In the drying West, dams are no longer the answer
By: George Miller
In the 1960s, the
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation began planning a reservoir on the American
River, hoping it would become a major element of California's extensive
system of dams and canals that ships water across the state.
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Contra Costa Times
Letter to the Editor: Solar solution to
water problems
Has
anyone thought of solving the water problems of California with solar
energy?
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Stockton Record
Editorial: Digging into the problem
Peripheral canal proposal aims to fast-track idea that won't go away
A recommendation
to set a timetable to start digging a ditch around the Sacramento-San
Joaquin Delta - a far-fetched idea with more lives than a cat - should
be a warning to north Valley residents that there are those who couldn't
care less about the health of the fragile estuary.
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YubaNet.com
Groups File Petition to Limit Gold Mining to Save Struggling
Fisheries
In Wake of Fisheries Closures, Tribe, Fishermen, and Conservationists
Urge California Fish and Game to protect critical habitats from Suction
Dredge Mining
By: Karuk Tribe
SACRAMENTO ---
The Karuk Tribe, California Trout, and Friends of the North Fork have
formally petitioned California Fish and Game to restrict the controversial
gold mining technique known as suction dredge mining.
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Western Farm Press
2009 pivotal year for California water issues
Water has always
been an important concern in agriculture. According to Jim Beck, Kern
County Water Agency general manager, in 2009 California water issues will
be more important than ever.
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Environmental News Service
Court Cancels EPA Clean Water Act Exemption
for Pesticides
CINCINNATI
--- Environmental groups today celebrated their victory as an appeals
court vacated a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule that has allowed
pesticides to be applied to U.S. waters without a Clean Water Act permit.
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Associated Press
Environmental group backs canal for Calif.
delta
By: Samantha Young
SACRAMENTO
---- A national environmental group on Wednesday recommended that California
overhaul its water-delivery system by building a canal around the Sacramento-San
Joaquin Delta.
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