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This database contains press and video clips on water issues of interest to the San Diego County Water Authority.

September 2, 2009

Wall Street Journal

California's Man-Made Drought

California has a new endangered species on its hands in the San Joaquin Valley—farmers.

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Wall Street Journal

Food Aid Grows in California's Agricultural Heart
By: Jim Carlton

SELMA, Calif. -- The combined punch of drought, water restrictions and recession has created an ironic situation in California's Central Valley: Officials are handing out tons of food in the heart of one of the nation's most productive agricultural regions.

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Sacramento Bee

Bass names Assembly picks for water panel
By: Torey Van Oot

Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, announced this afternoon the names of Assembly members who will serve on the 14-member joint water conference committee.

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Sacramento Bee

Legislators try to hammer out water plan By: E.J. Schultz

SACRAMENTO -- With only 10 days to go in the session, state lawmakers are taking a final stab at solving California's water woes.

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Sacramento Bee

The Buzz: Union ads to oppose Schwarzenegger water plan

The unions are gearing up for a fight – again – with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Los Angeles Times

Farmworkers union has $1-million war chest to fight water bonds
By: Shane Goldmacher

A new ripple appeared today in the fragile negotiations to overhaul California’s water system, as the United Farm Workers union reported receiving a $1-million donation that it could use to fight a possible water bond.

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Bay Area Indymedia

Steinberg, Bass Pick Conference Committee to Push Peripheral Canal
By: Dan Bacher

Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) and Assembly Speaker Karen Bass yesterday (September 1) named the conferees to a politically stacked conference committee to “reform” California’s water system in what appears to be a thinly-veiled attempt to build the multi-billion dollar Peripheral Canal.

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