(May 12, 2009, Jim Downing, The Sacramento Bee)
As another summer of drought approaches, hundreds of thousands of acres of San Joaquin Valley farmland are expected to be fallowed, and much of urban California faces 20 percent water cutbacks.
But in the Sacramento Valley, rice farmers have been busy for weeks spreading water 6 inches deep over [...]
(Feb. 13, 2009, The International Herald Tribune)
HARTFORD, Conn.: It’s a drop in the bucket for overburdened budgets, but bottled water is an expense states are considering cutting at the urging of activists trying to galvanize support for the use of public water supplies.
Following a similar move by U.S. mayors earlier this year, governors across the country [...]
(Jan. 25, 2009, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
A year ago, Gov. Sonny Perdue and state leaders made water their top priority. Georgia’s first water management plan zipped through the House and Senate and landed on Perdue’s desk in under three weeks.
“We will conserve and use this precious and vital resource wisely,” Perdue told lawmakers in his 2008 [...]
(Jan. 23, 2009, The Kitsap Sun)
It’s a fact that Bainbridge Island has a limited water supply — limited ultimately by the amount of rain that falls and by how much of this rainfall drains into the ground.
Reporter Tristan Baurick wrote an interesting story for today’s Kitsap Sun about a decline in water levels in some [...]
