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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
Desalination project firm allowed to keep permit
By: Michael Burge
CARLSBAD — The California Coastal Commission decided yesterday to allow Poseidon Resources to continue to develop an ocean-water desalination plant in Carlsbad.
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San Diego Daily Transcript
Coastal Commission dismisses request to revoke desalination project permit
The California Coastal Commission voted Wednesday to dismiss a request to revoke Poseidon Resources’ Coastal Development Permit for the Carlsbad Desalination Project.
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North County Times
WATER: Carlsbad desal challenge rejected
By: Bradley J. Fikes
OCEANSIDE ---- The California Coastal Commission has rejected the latest challenge to the seawater desalination plant that is under construction in coastal Carlsbad.
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KPBS News
State Agency Denies Challenge To Carlsbad Desalination Project
By: Ed Joyce
The California Coastal Commission voted 8-to-4 Wednesday to dismiss a challenge to the construction permit for a proposed desalination plant in Carlsbad.
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Water-saving garden taking root
Plot opens next month at Padre Dam offices
By: Anne Kreuger
SANTEE — Drought-tolerant plants don’t have to be boring.
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Letters to the editor
“Desalination’s promise” and “MWD in spotlight."
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Opinion: Aging sewers must be improved
By: Joseph J. McRoskey
We need to invest more in our sewer systems.
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Feinstein: More water for Central Valley farms
By: Kevin Freking (Associated Press)
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is considering sponsoring legislation that would divert more water to farms in the San Joaquin Valley, where a drought and environmental restrictions have idled thousands of acres and workers.
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San Diego Union-Tribune/North County Times
Calif. panel endorses more study of delta tunnel
By: Samantha Young (Associated Press)
A government panel overseeing California's delta endorsed plans to study a 43-mile underground tunnel on Thursday, saying it appears to be a promising way to keep water flowing to California farms and cities during the next five decades.
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San Diego Union-Tribune and North County Times
Judge: CA pumping limits needed to protect smelt
By: Garance Burke (Associated Press)
FRESNO, Calif. — A federal judge turned down California farmers' emergency request Wednesday to suspend water pumping restrictions in the state's delta in a ruling aimed at keeping a threatened fish species from being ground up in the pumps.
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North County Times
Feds: Return of chinook salmon at record low
By: Jason Dearen (Associated Press)
Strict salmon fishing restrictions off the California coast are likely again this year after federal regulators recorded a new record low of chinook salmon returning to rivers in Central Valley last year.
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Bay Area Indymedia
Sacramento River Fall Salmon Run Reaches New Record Low
By: Dan Bacher
The Pacific Fisheries Management Council (PFMC), a quasi-governmental body that manages West Coast fisheries, on February 11 released alarming numbers showing that California’s once most abundant salmon run collapsed to an all-time record low in 2009.
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Imperial Valley Press
Farm Bureau offers support to County on Quantification Settlement Agreement
By: David Steffen
Imperial County Farm Bureau President Mark McBroom said the bureau supports the county’s work to prevent negative air-quality impacts stemming from the Quantification Settlement Agreement.
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Los Angeles Times
Judge allows slowdown of pumps to protect smelt
By: Bettina Boxall
The big federal pumps that were cranked up over the weekend to send more Northern California water south will be turned down Thursday in the ongoing tug of war between water exports and fish protections.
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Stockton Record
Judge keeps Delta pumping limits in place
FRESNO - A federal judge turned down California farmers' emergency request Wednesday to suspend water pumping limits in the Delta, limits that are intended to protect threatened smelt.
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New York Times
In About-Face, Judge Upholds Calif. Water Limits
By: Colin Sullivan
A topsy-turvy week in a federal courtroom in Fresno, Calif., has led to the imposition of water flow restrictions to aid endangered delta smelt in the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta.
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Sacramento Bee
CA Dept. of Water Resources acquires Delta island
By: Matt Weiser
The California Department of Water Resources has acquired Prospect Island in the Delta from the federal government.
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PR Newswire
Four States and 43 California Localities Join Whistleblower to Sue Formosa Plastics and JM Eagle for Inferior PVC Pipe Used in Water and Sewer Systems
Press Release
Nevada, Virginia, Delaware, Tennessee, San Diego, Sacramento, San Jose, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and 39 other California municipalities and water districts have joined a whistleblower lawsuit seeking millions of dollars in damages from JM Eagle and its former parent company, Formosa Plastics Corp. (USA), for supplying their water and sewer systems with pipes that JM knew were substandard.
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