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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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February 19, 2010

ABC 10 News, Feb. 19, 2010: In the California Water Crisis segment, we see Public Affairs Education Program Supervisor, Ivan Golakoff, speak about the children's program "H2O Where Did You Go?"

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San Diego Union-Tribune

Just Fix It: Problem easy to resolve; the red tape … not so easy
By: Jeff Ristine

THE SITE: San Dieguito Drive

THE PROBLEM: It’s mere steps from the San Dieguito River, but a long patch of water along a two-lane road in Del Mar distinctly is out of place.

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San Diego Union-Tribune

Short take: Storm expected tonight, with 2 more next week

The first of three storms expected during the next week should arrive tonight, but forecasters don’t think this batch will be as fierce or productive as the storms that pelted the region last month.

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Imperial Valley Press

Quantification Settlement Agreement formally invalidated
By: David Steffen

The Imperial Irrigation District anticipated Judge Roland Candee’s final judgment that invalidates the nation’s largest agricultural-to-urban water transfer, and IID is already appealing.

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Fresno Bee

Opinion: Feinstein plan will avert crisis
By: Daniel Nelson

Beginning in 1993, the federal government has imposed an ever-tightening series of restrictions on the pumping plants in the Delta operated by the Bureau of Reclamation and the California Department of Water Resources.

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Sacramento Bee

Schwarzenegger says water bond will be 'very challenging'

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says that persuading voters to approve an $11.2 billion water bond issue this year will be "very challenging" but he hopes that they "know the difference between spending money and investing in the future."

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Sacramento Bee

11 West Coast lawmakers oppose Feinstein on valley water
By: Michael Doyle

WASHINGTON – Sen. Dianne Feinstein's effort to divert more water to San Joaquin Valley farms hit a serious obstacle Thursday as 11 of her fellow congressional Democrats voiced their objections.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Water system overhaul struggling, poll finds
By: Wyatt Buchanan

The $11 billion bond to overhaul California's water system that will go before voters in November is in big trouble, according to a poll released Thursday.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Open Forum: Feinstein is wrong about precedent for water rules change
By: Bill Kier

U.S Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., will try to remake the Endangered Species Act in her own image early next week to reve up the federal pumps in the San Francisco Bay Delta.

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Capitol Weekly

Poll: $11.4 billion water bond may be in trouble
By: Malcolm Maclachlan

A new statewide poll suggests that the $11.4 billion water bond on the November ballot is in trouble.

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Reuters

Democrats vs Democrat in California's water wars
By: Dan Whitcomb

LOS ANGELES  - A group of Democratic lawmakers on Thursday asked Senator Dianne Feinstein to abandon draft legislation that would divert more water to California's farmers...

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