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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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Imperial Valley Press
All-American Canal test buoys placed
By: David Steffen
Construction workers strung the first official buoy line across the All-American Canal at Drop 2 on Wednesday to prepare for March 18 in-water tests.
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San Diego Union-Tribune and North County Times
Wet winter leaves Sierra snowpack above average
By: Cathy Bussewitz (Associated Press)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's wet winter has left an above-average snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, boosting prospects for additional water deliveries to cities and farms, water officials said on Wednesday.
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Fallbrook-Bonsall Village News
Opinion: We must stop Merriam Mountains project
The Merriam Mountains project threatens to set a dangerous precedent in San Diego.
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San Diego Daily Transcript
Study: New California homes use less water than existing ones
SACRAMENTO -- According to a new study released this week, new homes built to current standards use far less water than homes built 20 years ago, and will use even less water when the California Green Building Standards Code comes into effect in 2011.
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San Diego Union-Tribune and North County Times
City attorney: grass case against OC man to be cut
By: The Associated Press
ORANGE, Calif. — Prosecutors say an Orange County man who removed his grass to save water now has enough drought-tolerant plants in his front yard to comply with a city ordinance that requires 40 percent of a yard be covered with live landscaping.
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Los Angeles Times
Editorial: A less green Orange
The remarkable charm of the city of Orange, whose Old Towne is the largest district on the National Register of Historic Places in California, is the result of its steadfast refusal to change with the times.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Water supply: so far, snow good
By: Peter Fimrite
Californians are experiencing a unique kind of drought - one in which there appears to be plenty of water to squirt around.
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The Press-Enterprise
Sierra snowpack above normal but more needed
By: Janet Zimmerman
The Sierra Nevada snowpack remains slightly above normal, but more precipitation is desperately needed to counter several dry years and increase water deliveries to Southern California this summer, state officials said Wednesday. .
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Capital Press
Rep. Nunes ready to let water flow
By: Wes Sander
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., says he is helping to pave the way for a suspension of federal species protections on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in hopes that Republicans will gain control of Congress this year.
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Capital Press
Editorial: California's need for water will not evaporate
Word last week that federal water managers were increasing this year's allotment for irrigation is being greeted with understandable skepticism by growers in California's parched San Joaquin Valley.
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