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Beyond Weather: Southland’s Water Challenges (Pasadena Star-News)

Friday, July 2, 2010

AN above-average rain year throughout California has prompted some very understandable questions about whether the dry cycle is over and whether much of our water problem has thus washed away. The healthier rain totals this season do mean that the short-term water management picture is not getting worse. But it will take more than snow [...]

State Increases Water Allotment After Storms

Thursday, June 24, 2010

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SACRAMENTO — California officials plan to increase the amount of water they supply to farms and cities after a series of late spring storms boosted the Sierra Nevada snowpack. The Department of Water Resources said on Wednesday it would supply 50 percent of the water its customers are requesting. That’s up from 45 percent in [...]

Bay Area Beaches Grade Well for Safe Swimming (SF Gate)

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

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Get out your snorkel and wet suit. The water quality of most Bay Area beaches is cleaner, and safer for swimming, than it has been in years, according to a study released Wednesday. More than 90 percent of Bay Area beaches received top grades in the annual report by Heal the Bay, a Santa Monica [...]

Water Expert Says World Use is at Unsustainable Rate

Friday, May 14, 2010

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Speaking to more than 200 people gathered at UC Santa Barbara Tuesday, a former United Nations water adviser said the world might run out of drinkable water by 2030. Water expert Maude Barlow told the crowd that countries around the world are using water at an unsustainable rate, drawing it from rivers and aquifers faster [...]

U.S. Opens Spigot for California Farms (Wall Street Journal)

Thursday, March 18, 2010

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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a sharp increase in federal water supplies for California’s agricultural Central Valley, further easing drought concerns in a state where El Niño rains have raised the mountain snowpack after three severely dry years. Mr. Salazar said water allocations from the Central Valley Project in California, a system of aqueducts and [...]

A Truce in California’s Water Wars (SF Chronicle)

Monday, March 1, 2010

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A mighty turn of the federal faucet has ended the latest chapter in California’s water wars. A wet winter that’s filling rivers and reservoirs will let Washington dole out extra supplies for cities, farms and wildlife and cap a political rebellion in the San Joaquin Valley. The outcome is clearly welcome. After three dry years, [...]

Oregon, California Sign Deal Aimed at Ending Klamath Water Wars

Monday, February 22, 2010

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SALEM — Five years ago, Klamath Basin tribal leaders, longtime farmers, fish-loving environmentalists, PacifiCorp suits and government regulators sat down to take a shot at ending one of the West’s grittiest water wars. “We had people around the table who could barely look at each other, let alone speak to each other,” said Thomas O’Rourke [...]

Is California’s drought ending? It’s too soon to say (LA Times)

Monday, January 25, 2010

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It’s too early to know if California’s three-year drought is ending, but the train of storms that plowed into California last week pushed the critical mountain snowpack to slightly above normal levels and sent water rushing into half-empty reservoirs. At his office at Shasta Dam north of Redding, Brian Person watched the biggest reservoir in [...]

California Wastewater Treatment Facility Expands Its FuelCell Energy Power Plant to Generate 1.0 Megawatt of Green Electricity

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

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DANBURY, Conn., Dec. 8, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq:FCEL), a leading manufacturer of high efficiency ultra-clean power plants using renewable and other fuels for commercial, industrial, government, and utility customers, today announced the sale of a fourth DFC300 fuel cell unit to the City of Tulare, Calif. to expand the municipality’s existing [...]

Obama Administration to begin taking action on California water crisis

Monday, August 17, 2009

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(examiner.com) Most of California’s 37 million residents know the importance of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, even if they themselves do not realize it. The freshwater estuary provides drinking water to more than 23 million California residents, nearly two-thirds of the state total, and irrigates over 2 million acres of farmland. It would be folly to [...]

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