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California Drought and The Rise of Regulated-Deficit Irrigation: Almonds, $2 Billion Crop, Threatened Industry (MercedSunStar)

Mar.07, 2009

RED ALERT: 75% Chance of Mandatory Water Rationing in San Diego by July 1, 2009: Initial Penalties to be Price-Based; Flow Restrictors to be Put on Violator’s Houses!!!; Mayor Claims Families’ Water Use down 40% over Last Two Years (MSNBC)

Mar.07, 2009

New Report Finds E. Coli in Some Cape Coral, Florida Well Water: 22,000 People Use Well Water There (MSNBC)

Mar.07, 2009

Carefree, Arizona Customer Takes Out Petitions for Referendum to Reverse Scheduled Water Rate Hike, which would DOUBLE or TRIPLE the Rates on Some of the 9,000 Customers Affected (AZCentral)

Mar.07, 2009

The Water Equation: River.Flow + Increase.In.Water.Storage = Rainfall – Evaporation (CrikeyCreek)

Mar.07, 2009

Basic Water Supply & Demand: As Water Reserves are Dwindling, Water Prices SHOULD be Rising (Aguanomics)

Mar.07, 2009

Drinking Away the Dead Sea: New Study — Human Water Consumption has Taken Dead Sea to Record, Environmentally Dangerous Water Levels (Huliq)

Mar.07, 2009

Nalco (NLC): Warren Buffett’s Small Cap Stock Investment in Water Industry (BloggingStocks)

Mar.07, 2009

What will Federal Water Research Support?: MORE Water Development, Water Efficiency, Water Rationing, Water Management? (KansasCityInfoZine)

Mar.07, 2009

How Do Property Managers and Landlords Conserve Water When Their Tenants Don’t Pay the Water Bills? (LeakBird)

Mar.06, 2009

Whiskey’s for Drinkin’, but Water’s for Fightin’ –The Trouble with the Southwest is There’s Not Much Water Left HERE: Similar in California, Florida, Georgia (Randall Amster, HuffingtonPost)

Mar.06, 2009

Bottled Water Industry, Trying to Avoid Florida Severance Tax, Says It Will Let Lawmakers Remove Sales Tax Exemption, to Be Paid by Citizens (MiamiHerald)

Mar.06, 2009

Santa Cruz Mountains Town Gets 20% Water Rate Increase, Served by San Lorenzo Valley Water District (MercuryNews)

Mar.06, 2009

Water the Ultimate Luxury: In Pakistan — Rain Delays All Plans; Water is Stolen; Water Part of Daily Consversation (SoundNews)

Mar.06, 2009

Water Managers NEED to Manage People, Not Meters (Aguanomics)

Mar.06, 2009

The Coming Great Water Shortage — San Francisco Public Utilities Commission may have to Declare Temporary Water Rationing: Serves 2.5M Bay Area Customers (LeakBird)

Mar.05, 2009

Smart Grid for Water would Save the US 30% to 50% of Its Water Supply Every Year, Says Mark Modzelewski (BusinessInsider)

Mar.05, 2009

Sacramento, California Per Capita Water Consumption 280 Gallons Per Day!!!: California National Average 192 (SacramentoBee)

Mar.05, 2009

Rise of the Water Entrepreneur: Look to Business Sector to Find Next Generation of Water Saving Opportunities (SanFranciscoChronicle)

Mar.05, 2009

Rifle-Wielding North Dakota Man Confronts City Official over Unpaid Water Bill (AssociatedPress)

Mar.05, 2009

California Drought Deception Emergency?: Water Levels Look Acceptable, but Overpopulation and Fragile Delta Looming could Exacerbate Problem (SanFranciscoChronicle)

Mar.05, 2009

Shock: 10%+ of All Residential, In-Building Water Consumption due to Running or Leaking Toilets!!! (LeakBird)

Mar.04, 2009

California Water Wars: Not About ‘Fish Vs. People‘; “Societies Rise, Flourish and Eventually Crash because They Misuse Their Water” (Dan Bacher, IndyBay)

Mar.04, 2009

Massachusetts Power Companies Hungry for Scarce Commodity…Water, but Coming Up Short (ValleyAdvocate)

Mar.04, 2009

Fairmont, West Virginia Water Rates to Rise 49% (TimesWestVirginian)

Mar.04, 2009

Mandatory Water Rationing Later on This Month: Water Shortage Still Imminent in California in Spite of Heavy Rains, which would “Need to Last Until November” to Stop Drought (MercuryNews)

Mar.04, 2009

Central Valley Water Districts of California Sue Federal Government over Rules on Endangered Delta Smelt (MercuryNews)

Mar.04, 2009

Australia Ahead of California on Its Water Markets: Every Household Metered for Water Down Under; Water Licenses, Not Water Rights; Better Indoor & Underground Water Efficiency; Less Water Consumption Per Capita — Zetland: Cheap Water’s Result is Water Shortage (David Zetland, Aguanomics)

Mar.04, 2009

We Don’t Know Where Water Came From: Volcanic Activity, Meteoric Content, Outgassed Volatility, Biochemistry, Photolysis Gradual Hydrous Material Leakage??? (Jared Simpson, WaterBlogged)

Mar.04, 2009

‘Wet Water’ Vs. ‘Paper Water’: New Eric Kuhn Study — Colorado River with Only 150,000 Acre Feet (AF) of Additional Water Left for Colorado Itself, According to the Colorado River Compact; 10% of ‘Paper Water’ Lies!!! — “I’d Rather be Upstream with a Shovel and a Ditch than Downstream with a Decree.” (Aquadoc, WaterWired)

Mar.04, 2009

RED ALERT: 23 Water Bottlers, e.g., Nestle, in Florida DON’T PAY FOR THEIR WATER!!!: Governor Charlie Crist of Florida Wants to Charge Companies to Pump from Florida Acquifer (USAToday)

Mar.03, 2009

The REAL Reason Water Utilities are Raising Water Rates across the Nation (LeakBird)

Mar.03, 2009

Non-Tributary Water: New Source of 1M Acre Feet (AF) of Fresh Water in California (Aguanomics)

Mar.03, 2009

US Water Systems Key to Local Food, National Security: As Much as Third of Cities’ Water Usage Goes to FLUSHING TOILETS!!! (Tim Gamble, NextStrategies)

Mar.03, 2009

Drought Improvement: California’s Sierra Snowpack NOW 80% of Normal!; Water Restrictions Still Imminent, However (MercuryNews)

Mar.03, 2009

Water Rates to Rise $2.26 Per Customer Per Month in Houston: Reasons — Growing Population; Rising Cost of Treating Water, as “Caustic Soda” 300% More Expensive; Hurricane Katrina Repair to Water Infrastructure (HoustonChronicle)

Mar.03, 2009

Building the Case for Acoustic Water Leak Detection Equipment in Running and Leaking Toilet Fixtures (LeakBird)

Mar.02, 2009

Midwest Getting Wetter, Southwest Getting Drier = OPPORTUNITY: Pat Mulroy Mulls Mississippi River Water Diversion En Route to Las Vegas (John Laumer, Treehugger)

Mar.02, 2009

Sacramento Sewage Company to Begin Selling Wastewater?: 1.4M Customers’ 180K AF Per Year of Wastewater to Become New Muncipal Water Source!!! (SacramentoBee)

Mar.02, 2009

Unaffordable Water Rates, Customer Complaints: Toilets Leaking in Richmond, Missouri Putting Residents Even Deeper Under Water (RichmondDailyNews)

Mar.02, 2009

$122M in Federal Stimulus to Upgrade Indiana’s Sewer and Drinking Water Systems: EPA Estimats Cost of Fixing Entire Indiana Water System @ $4.5B!!! (ChicagoTimes)

Mar.02, 2009

San Francisco Water Rates, Running Toilets and Property Management: Summary of My June 2008 Chat with The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) (LeakBird)

Mar.01, 2009

Four California Water Managers — Ken Willis, Randy Van Gelder, Robert DeLoach, Michael Camacho — Speak Their Minds on “Perfect Storm” Drought: Price of Imported Water will Increase 20% in 2009!!! (SanBernardinoSun)

Mar.01, 2009

Drought Declaration Ambiguity: California Locals Concerned over Groundwater Control, Schwarzenegger’s Meaning in “Expedited Water Transfers” (MSNBC)

Mar.01, 2009

The Three Main Difficulties of Submetering Tenants’ Water Consumption for Landlords and Property Managers: Water Conservation Still an Expensive Proposition (LeakBird)

Feb.28, 2009

California Cities must Reduce Water Consumption by One-Fifth ASAP: Two Dozen Water Agencies have Ordered Water Rationing (Kelly Zito, SanFranciscoChronicle)

Feb.28, 2009

Diminishing Water Supply in California Forces Realization of Smarter Water Usage Re Fixtures, Appliances: Water Agencies Looking for Every Advantage; Customers Now Making First Move, Not Waiting for Subsidy; However, Switching to a New High-Tech Toilet Costs $550 on Average!!! (Kelly Zito, SanFranciscoChronicle)

Feb.28, 2009

New York Drinking Water Supply Under Threat: Drilling for Natural Gas could Cause Water Pollution Cavity; Marcellus Shale Gas Layer could Contain 400 Trillion Cubic Feet of Gas = 20 Years Total US Production (AlterNet)

Feb.28, 2009

Borrowing Water — The China South-to-North Water Transfer, Mao Zedong and The Rise of the “Dam Migrants”: 12.5M Farmers Relocated; 86K Dams Since 1949 (Reuters)

Feb.28, 2009

On the Road to Water Rationing — In Wake of California Drought Emergency Declaration, Water Agencies Pushing Forward with Tougher Water Restrictions and Ordinances: Water Transfers to be Expedited; Water Conservation Plans to be Put into Effect; Water Fees & $500.00 Fines for Violations (OCRegister)

Feb.28, 2009

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