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

February 5, 2010

North County Times

REGION: Please don't irrigate before weekend storm, Water Authority asks
By: Bradley J. Fikes


San Diego County businesses and residents, please turn off your irrigation systems for the near future. Mother Nature will do the watering this weekend.

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San Diego News Network

Water Authority asks residents to conserve during storm

Businesses and residents in San Diego County were asked Thursday to help conserve water by shutting off their landscape watering systems in advance of a forecasted storm expected to hit the region.

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San Diego Union-Tribune

Judge orders Calif water pumping limits lifted
By: Garance Burke (Associated Press)

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge temporarily lifted pumping limits Friday designed to protect endangered wild salmon in order to speed more irrigation water to California's drought-addled fields.

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San Diego Union-Tribune

Opinion: The greens are all wet
By: Brandon Middleton and Damien Schiff

How do you make green groups turn red with fury – or shame? Shine some light on the damage caused by their extremist environmental agenda.

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KPBS News

Behind The Weather: Strongest El Niņo In A Decade By: Christopher Joyce (NPR)

Major snowstorms are set to bury the mid-Atlantic states this weekend after record snowfalls in December.

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New York Times

WCentral Valley Water Pump Wars Continue on Capitol Hill
By: Taryn Luntz

Partisan bickering resumed yesterday over water pumping restrictions in California's Central Valley, as Republicans attacked a Democratic bill meant to shore up area farmers.

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