State Senate votes to eliminate entity overseeing delta repair: Questions about almost $5 billion spent on program
Associated Press / by Don Thompson
Canal could increase water supply
Contra Costa Times / by Mike Taugher
Garamendi warns of how climate change may affect Delta
Stockton Record / by Scott Smith
A new water strategy: Without one, the entire California economy is at risk.
Los Angeles Times / by George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson and Gray Davis
The emerging water crisis in the U.S.
Deming Headlight / by Shiney Varghese, Senior Policy Analyst, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Long Beach Year Ahead Of Others In Water Conservation
Grunion Gazette / by Harry Saltzgaver
Auburn dam may be dealt death blow
Sacramento Bee / by Matt Weiser
Coastal Commission approves Bolsa Chica footbridge: Bridge will connect Outer Bolsa Bay with upper wetlands and could be built as soon as October.
Orange County Register / by Annie Burris
Water bill battle blazes in Palm Springs
Palm Springs Sun / by Willian Avila
Water Shortage Concerns: City Contemplates Going From Toilet to Tap
AlterNet / by Barbara L. Minton
Long Beach cuts the ribbon on a wetlands wonder
Long Beach Press-Telegram / by Pamela Hale-Burns
Lincoln gathers more awards: City wastewater treatment and reclamation facility tops in state
Lincoln News Messenger
Water recycling bill signed into law
Contra Costa Times / by Simon Read and Paul Burgarino
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MTBE contamination settlement could cost oil companies $423 million: More than 500 lawsuits in California and 19 other states over groundwater fouled by the gasoline additive are resolved.
Los Angeles Times / by Janet Wilson
New dam proposals restart 1970s-era fights
Earth News / by Colin Sullivan
Silver Lake Reservoir: Dry for months, DWP is refilling 'er up
Los Angeles Times / by Francisco Vara-Orta
Bill reviving the San Joaquin River gets an OK
San Francisco Chronicle / by Peter Fimrite
Disinfection process change spurs call for untreated water
Antelope Valley Press / by Alisha Semchuck
Tejon Ranch pact would allow 26,000 homes on the range
Los Angeles Times / by Louis Sahagun
Overflows cost sewer systems $35 million in fines
USA Today / by Larry Wheeler
Not your typical garage sale: Sewage treatment space available
Inside Bay Area / by Karen Holzmeister
Going green with greywater: Petaluma home is first in the county with a permitted system that uses old wash water for irrigation
Petaluma Argus-Courier / by Corey Young
Orange County Water District beats out over 400 international nominees to win the 2008 Global Water Award (PDF)
Longfin smelt under consideration for endangered status
Sacramento Bee / by Matt Weiser
EPA may decide not to limit the amount of a toxin in water supplies: An agency official tells a Senate committee that it's possible there will be no standard set for the amount of perchlorate allowed in drinking water.
Los Angeles Times / by Marla Cone
Feds weigh Trinity water shift
Eureka Times-Standard / by John Driscoll
Richmond spill killed up to 300 fish - delay probed
San Francisco Chronicle / by Carl Nolte
Poseidon’s Delay: Coastal Commission waits 2 years for desal answers
Orange Coast Voice / by John Earl
Farm bill, water lead agenda for Washington trip
Ag Alert / by Ching Lee
Silver Lake Reservoir To Get Refill
CBS 2 Los Angeles
County hopes for help (with wastewater treatment plant)
Marysville Appeal-Democrat / by Andrea Koskey
5/7/2008
Climate Change and Drinking Water Resources
Speaker: Richard Haberman, Supervising Sanitary Engineer, California Department of Public Health
UC Davis, 3001 Plant and Environmental Sciences Building, 4-5:30p.m.
Berkeley Students Working in China on the Future of a Water Village in the Pearl River Delta and on the Grand Canal in Hangzhou
Speaker: Peter Bosselmann, Professor of Urban Design, Departments of City and Regional Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
UC Berkeley, 315A Wurster Hall, 1-2p.m.
5/8/2008
Climate Footprints: How do we know human activites have influenced global climate change?
Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Santer, contributor to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
UC Santa Cruz, Media Theater, 7:30p.m.
5/9/2008
Safe Affordable Drinking Water for Poor Communities in the Developing Countries
Speaker: Dr. Ashok Gadgil, Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
UC Berkeley, 542 Davis Hall, 11a.m.-12p.m.
2008 Jim Arnold Lecture--Global Climate Change: A Paleoclimate Perspective from the World's Highest Mountains
Speaker: Professor Lonnie Thompson, Distinguished University Professor, School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University
UC San Diego, Robinson Building Complex, 5-7p.m.
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