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Some Interesting Water Usage Numbers and Statistics (Treehugger)

Apr.26, 2009

Bottled Water a Necessity in Saudi Arabia, But You have to Deal with Acid Reflux from Chlorine Gas (SandGetsInMyEyes)

Apr.26, 2009

San Gabriel Valley, California Customers could See Their Water Rates Rise 56% Next Year!!! (PasadenaStarNews)

Apr.26, 2009

How Much of Our Potable Water Goes Down the Drain, Never to Be Seen (or Used) Again? (GlobeAndMail)

Apr.25, 2009

Liquid Gold: Canadian Town KNOWS How to Manage Its Precious Water (GlobeAndMail)

Apr.25, 2009

Water Wars: Future Water Stresses will be Widespread (Jeff Sachs, StarbroekNews)

Apr.25, 2009

Study: Peripheral Canal will Not Save Contra Costa from Water Crisis (MercuryNews)

Apr.25, 2009

RED ALERT: Mandatory Water Rationing Comes to San Diego County: Level 2 Drought Alert Declared; Water Restrictions to be @ 8%; Agressive Outreach, Inspections, Education and Water Cops (SanDiegoUnionTribune)

Apr.24, 2009

The Running Toilet Book: Chapter 5 — No Such Thing as a Free Lunch (LeakBird)

Apr.23, 2009

RED ALERT: Water Conservation Key Survival Strategy for California: New “Save Our Water” Campaign Launched by State (SacramentoBee)

Apr.23, 2009

Los Angeles’ New Rules for Water Use to Take Effect June 1: Tier 1 Allotments to Be Reduced 15% (LosAngelesTimes)

Apr.23, 2009

Report: World’s Rivers Drying Up (FoxNews)

Apr.23, 2009

Water Bills Pay Back Public Works’ Loans: Cheap Water Becoming a Thing of the Past in Oregon (PortlandTribune)

Apr.23, 2009

California Drought Update: Due to Recent Storms, Feds Allocate 10% of Government Entitled Water to Farmers in California (NewYorkTimes)

Apr.22, 2009

Water is Going to Get Expensive: Jacksonville, Florida Proposes 10% Annual Water Rate Increases over Next 4 Years! (News4Jax)

Apr.22, 2009

The Running Toilet Book: Chapter 4 — People Depend on Systems (LeakBird)

Apr.21, 2009

The Worst Drought in the US Currently in Texas (WallStreetJournal)

Apr.21, 2009

Arizona Stands to Lose Biggest in Water Crisis: Colorado River Provides One Third of Arizona’s Water (ArizonaRepublic)

Apr.21, 2009

Summer Water Rationing in Antioch, California: 15% Reduction Announced for Consumers; 5% for Industrial Users (MercuryNews)

Apr.21, 2009

California Water Usage Stats: Southern Californians Use 110 Gallons of Capita Per Day (GCD); People in Bay Area Use 97 GCD; San Francisco, 63 GCD (Aguanomics)

Apr.21, 2009

RED ALERT: $12M Budget Shortfall; SFPUC Leans Toward 10% Annual Water Rate Increase over Next 4 Years: Water Consumption Down in Bay Area, So Get Ready to Pay A Lot More for Your Water! (Kelly Zito, SanFranciscoChronicle)

Apr.20, 2009

Asian Water Crisis Hardens: ‘Downstream’ Vs. ‘Upstream’ Countries (InternationalRelationsAndSecurityNetwork)

Apr.20, 2009

Cleveland Water District Shuns Complaints from Landlords, Business Owners, Even Though They have Majority (PlainDealer)

Apr.20, 2009

The Running Toilet Book: Chapter 3 — Berkeley’s Question (LeakBird)

Apr.19, 2009

Crumbling US Water Infrastructure: Aging of Water Mains is Becoming Hard to Ignore (NewYorkTimes)

Apr.19, 2009

Study: Gray Water Recycling could Cut Residential Water Usage by 16% (LosAngelesTimes)

Apr.19, 2009

The Running Toilet Book: Chapter 2 — The Super Toilet Myth (LeakBird)

Apr.18, 2009

From Carbon Footprints to Water Footprints (NewYorkTimes)

Apr.18, 2009

California Water Projects to Receive $260M of Obama Stimulus, but Most of It will Go to Protecting Fish (SanFranciscoChronicle)

Apr.18, 2009

Californa Drought Raises Rural-Urban Tensions over Water (ChristianScienceMonitor)

Apr.18, 2009

The Running Toilet Book: Chapter 1 — The Water Myth (LeakBird)

Apr.17, 2009

Drought-Resistant Plants NOT Allowed by California Homeowner Associations (MercuryNews)

Apr.17, 2009

No Water, No Jobs, No Food: Hundreds of Farmers, Farm Workers and Elected Officials Protest Federal Water Cuts in California (NewYorkTimes)

Apr.17, 2009

The Running Toilet Book: Introduction (LeakBird)

Apr.16, 2009

California Drought Tipping Point for Water Policy (EnvironmentalDefenseFund)

Apr.16, 2009

No Amount of Profligate use Will Go Punished: Letter to SFPUC GM Asking for “More Agressive Block Rate Pricing” (Aguanomics)

Apr.16, 2009

Water Rights can Lead to An Increase in Cash Flows for New Zealand Landowners (DominionPost)

Apr.16, 2009

The End of Cheap Water is Nigh… (Paul Kedrosky, InfectiousGreed)

Apr.16, 2009

Recession Means Water Investors will Have to Wait for Boom Years (Reuters)

Apr.16, 2009

Lower Water Use Means Higher Water Bills, Says EMBUD: 7.5% Annual Water Rate Increases for Next 2 Years (SanFranciscoChronicle)

Apr.16, 2009

Feds Offer California $260M from Stimulus to Fix Water-Delivery System (NewYorkTimes)

Apr.16, 2009

Water Rates to Rise 25% (Sewer Rates, 30%) in Quincy, Massachusetts! (QuincyHeraldWhig)

Apr.14, 2009

Water Wisdom in Los Angeles Means Everybody, Not Just Water Over-Users, will Pick Up Tab (LosAngelesTimes)

Apr.14, 2009

California Water Going Down the Drain, in the Face of Severe 30% Water Restrictions (SanFranciscoChronicle)

Apr.14, 2009

Should Rainwater Harvesting be Made Illegal Everywhere, Like in Colorado? (AlterNet)

Apr.13, 2009

North Carolina may Be the Most Progressive Southern State, but It’s Way Behind Its Neighbors in Water Management (WinstonSalemJournal)

Apr.13, 2009

LeakBird @ San Francisco Water Conservation Showcase on March 24, 2009 (LeakBird)

Apr.13, 2009

Industrial Farms could Leave Eastern Washington with Dry Wells (NewYorkTimes)

Apr.13, 2009

Corps to Study Wyoming-Colorado Pipeline (Forbes)

Apr.13, 2009

You Decide Who Gets California’s Water (SanFranciscoChronicle)

Apr.12, 2009

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