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(Feb. 27, 2009, The Los Angeles Times)
With California’s budget crisis resolved for the moment, state lawmakers Thursday turned their attention to another emergency: a three-year drought that has left key reservoirs at 35% of capacity.
Legislators stepped forward with plans to ask voters to borrow as much as $15 billion for projects to expand and improve [...]

(Feb. 20, 2009, The Kansas City Star)
KC’s Water Services Department is discussing the possibility of up to 90 layoffs, Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s budget SWAT team heard Friday.
At the same meeting, the budget panel proposed asking the department to chip in $4 million to help the city get through its budget crisis.
If the City Council approves [...]

(Jan. 11, 2009, Central Coast)
The water fountain at Pacific Elementary School has been turned off for years, school administrators say, and there’s concern it won’t operate anytime soon.
The school and the rest of the Davenport community are awaiting a $1.7 million overhaul of the town’s water treatment system. But the improvements, needed before the faucets [...]