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This database contains press and video clips on water issues of interest
to the San Diego County Water Authority.
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Opinion: Where does San Diego go from here?
By: Tom Wornham
Banker Tom Wornham took over last week as 2010 chairman of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, delivering a dramatic call to action in his installation speech Wednesday night. The commentary below is an adaptation of his remarks.
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Voice of San Diego
City Water Usage Up
By: Liam Dillon
San Diego's city-wide water usage is up 1.5 percent from January 2009, Mayor Jerry Sanders announced today, the first time it's gone up monthly since the city instituted mandatory water restrictions in June.
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Voice of San Diego
Another View of San Diego’s Water Use
By: Rob Davis
The water use statistics the city of San Diego released today tell us one thing: How conservation went in January 2010 compared to the same month last year.
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Ecologists say unrestricted pumping will harm fish
By: The Associated Press
FRESNO, Calif. — Environmentalists say a federal judge's order to temporarily allow unrestricted pumping in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta threatens to push endangered salmon into extinction.
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Feds reduce Calif. water pumping to protect fish
By: The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The federal government said Tuesday it will reduce pumping in the delta this week because a threatened fish could be killed by the equipment, a decision that follows two years of limited deliveries ...
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KPBS News
Carlsbad Desalination Plant Faces Another Revocation Hearing
By: Mark Larson
SAN DIEGO — Opponents of a desalination plant in Carlsbad want a state agency to revoke the project's coastal development permit.
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San Diego Daily Transcript
Meier Wright appointed to regional water committee
By: Elizabeth Malloy
Julie Meier Wright, president and chief executive officer of the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp., has been appointed to serve as an expert resource for the Metropolitan Water District’s 2060 Blue Ribbon Committee.
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NBC San Diego
El Niño? El No-Show
By: Whitney Southwick
Rain has become a common talker around San Diego water coolers. After two wet months, this weekend's drenching still fresh in our minds and another big rain-maker expected to hit Wednesday, conversations about what a wet winter we're having are popping up everywhere.
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San Diego Business Journal
LEED Gains Status as County Doubles Up on Energy-Efficient Projects
By: Mark Larson
Getting a building LEED-certified is becoming an increasingly common pursuit in San Diego, as the long-term financial benefits of having an energy-efficient building gains popularity.
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OC Register
More democracy-aversion at OC water districts?
By: Teri Sforza
Last week, the Orange County Water District appointed Noble J. Waite to its powerful board of directors, replacing Wes Bannister, who died in December. Which brings things strangely full circle.
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PhysOrg.com
No mere pipe dream
By: Tom Vasich
UCI engineers are working on robotic technology to rehabilitate the nation's aging water infrastructure.
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Fresno Bee
Opinion: Different kind of leadership
By: Meg Whitman
Eight months ago, I wrote in these pages that our failure to rebuild California's water supply system is crippling our economy and hurting large parts of the Central Valley. I'm sad to say that the suffering continues.
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Fresno Bee
Pumps blast water to west Valley farmers
By: Mark Grossi and Robert Rodriguez
Federal officials are pumping an extra billion gallons of river water daily into San Luis Reservoir for west Valley farmers, thanks to a federal judge's order and a string of winter storms.
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Fresno Bee
New delta pumping cutbacks proposed
By: John Ellis
The federal government has proposed a new set of water-pumping restrictions in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, just four days after west-side farmers hailed a court ruling that temporarily halted a similar cutback.
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Contra Costa Times
Water agencies meet, discuss self-sufficiency
By: Liset Marquez
ONTARIO - With dwindling water supplies, agencies throughout California are grappling with how to survive under the current drought conditions.
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Press Enterprise
Inland water agencies are serious about capturing storm runoff
By: Janet Zimmerman
Long before Southern California's water supplies dwindled, storm runoff was something to be disposed of quickly by sending it down concrete channels to the ocean.
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