On Water

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.