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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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Sun
Chronicle (Massachusetts)
Pipeline project puts future of city company in doubt
By Rick Foster
W. Walsh
suffered heavy losses in California. The
future of a city construction firm and 40 jobs is in doubt because of
heavy losses related to a controversial pipeline project in California.
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story.
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Boston
Business Journal
Calif. legal spat could hit Attleboro firm hard
W. Walsh Co.,
an Attleboro construction company that employs 40 people in the city,
could be fighting for its survival all due to a legal dispute
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BusinessReviewsUSA.com
Oceanside Water: Innovative Rates and Services
By Sharise Cruz
The Oceanside
Water Utilities Department incorporates unique revenue and energy techniques
to provide low cost, safe water services.
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East
County Magazine
Editorial: Bold Next Steps For Climate Change
By Congressman Bob Filner
How
much toxic sediment should polluters be forced to clean up at the bottom
of San Diego Bay? And just who are those polluters?
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NewsVine.com
Are Americans Ready to Start Drinking Their
(Treated) Toilet Water?
As the
American Southwest reels from one of the worst droughts on record, some
parched communities are opting for a once-unthinkable conservation measure:
extracting drinking water from urine and other liquid waste.
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story.
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Monterey County The Herald
Good alternatives exist for new water
By Janet Brennan, Dale Hekuis and George Riley
When the Peninsula's
mayors recently hosted a forum on water supply alternatives, five proponents
presented proposals in a wide-ranging display of concepts and numbers.
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story.
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Manufacturing.Net
Fresh Water from Salt: The Environment Of Desalination
By Karl Stephan
A couple
of weeks ago I had the privilege of visiting Doha, Qatar, in connection
with an engineering ethics workshop at Texas A&M University Qatar.
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story.
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KPBS
Groups Demand Cleanup Of San Diego Bay
Environmental Groups Say Toxic Contaminated Sediment Endangers People, Wildlife
By Ed Joyce
To
hear the audio related to this story click
here....San
Diego environmental groups are demanding the San Diego Regional Water
Quality Control Board take action on a cleanup plan for San Diego Bay.
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IndyBay.com
Groups Sue Feds to Stop Selenium Poisoning
of Bay-Delta
By Dan Bacher
The
cozy relationship between the polluters and regulators has sanctioned
the discharge of pollutants from these toxic soils to the San Joaquin
River, San Francisco Bay and Delta and some of the polluted water—no
one knows how much—is routinely discharged into the California Aqueduct,
which carries drinking water to over 15 million people living in Los Angeles
and other parts of Southern California.
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The Fresno Bee
Suit filed over drainage into San Joaquin
River
By Mark Grossi
Fishing
and conservation groups sued the federal government Wednesday, hoping
to stop the west Valley flow of tainted irrigation drainage into the San
Joaquin River.
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Central Valley Business Times
Irrigator pooh-pooh’s selenium pollution lawsuit
A federal lawsuit
filed Wednesday against the U.S. EPA by environmental groups is a waste
of taxpayers’ money, says the head of the San Luis & Delta-Mendota
Water Authority, one of the major suppliers of irrigation water to the
west side of the San Joaquin Valley.
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Mercury
News
Suit seeks to stop alleged pollution by CA farmers
By Gosia Wozniacka
California
fishing and conservation groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday in federal court,
accusing farmers of illegally discharging polluted groundwater into tributaries
of the San Joaquin River.
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OregonLive.com
Klamath Basin water bill is landmark, but will it pass Congress?
Farmers, ranchers,
tribes and environmentalists are burying a history of physical threats,
harsh words and competing demands to unite behind landmark legislation
that would settle a century-long battle over the most precious commodity
in the Klamath Basin – water.
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Dudek
News
California Wastewater Agencies Rehabbing Ocean Outfalls Face
Coastal Permit Issues
Coastal Commission, stakeholder groups involved when aging outfall pipes
are addressed
Wastewater districts
considering upgrading or rehabilitating facilities with ocean outfalls
need to consider how the California Coastal Commission (CCC) will interpret
requirements of the California Coastal Act (Coastal Act) and certified
local coastal programs (LCPs) in the review and permitting stages.
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