(April 17, 2009, The Christian Science Monitor)
California’s third year of drought is stirring up long-standing – and usually low-simmering – tensions between farmers in northern and central California and urban consumers in the state’s dry Southland.
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(April 2, 2009, The New York Times)
For about a mile, a steady stream of water flows down Bear Canyon before finally petering out in the sand near a golf course. The arroyo is not supposed to be wet this time of year; the spring snowmelt does not usually occur until later in the season. But [...]
(Feb. 26, 2009, Ceres)
Global climate change is exacerbating water scarcity problems around the world, yet few businesses and investors are paying attention to this growing financial threat, according to a report issued today by Ceres and the Pacific Institute.
Water is crucial for the global economy – driving every industry from agriculture to electric power to [...]
(Feb. 26, 2009, Bloomberg News)
On a cloudless December day in the Nevada desert, workers in white hard hats descend into a 30- foot-wide shaft next to Lake Mead.
As they’ve been doing since June, they’ll blast and dig straight down into the limestone surrounding the reservoir that supplies 90 percent of Las Vegas’s water. In September, [...]
(Feb. 19, 2009, Christian Science Monitor)
On the Colorado River Delta, some 250 miles west southwest of Tucson as the crow flies, sits Cienega de Santa Clara.
It’s a 63-square-mile patch of wetland – a key stop for migrating birds along an arid stretch of the Pacific flyway. It’s the largest remaining wetland on the Colorado River [...]
(Feb. 11, 2009, Stephen Chu, Alternet)
Eight years of disinformation and muzzling U.S. climate scientists has left the public largely unaware of the catastrophes ahead.
Finally, we have a top administration official telling it like it is. Energy Secretary and Nobelist Stephen Chu told a Los Angeles Times reporter:
In a worst case, Chu said, up to [...]
(Feb. 15, 2009, Jack Rosebro, Green Car Congress)
Xinhua. Faced with widespread drought and water shortages, China’s Water Resources Minister Chen Lei has announced a national goal of reducing the country’s water use, as measured by the amount of water used per unit of GDP, to about 55% of current consumption by 2020. The target is [...]
(Jan. 30, 2009, Planetizen)
Cities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are working together to save water and use reclaimed water for non-drinking purposes.
“The Arlington City Council is expected to consider joining a regional partnership next month that would use reclaimed water from the Village Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant at the Ditto Golf Course, J.W. Dunlop Sports [...]
(Jan. 24, 2009, The Merced Sun-Star)
Draw a tall cool glass of water from the tap anywhere in this county, and you’ll be drinking water that came out of the ground.
For cities and farms alike, most water comes from one source — wells. Much of the water Merced County uses comes from a common [...]
(Jan. 22, 2009, Napa Valley Register)
American Canyon may spend up to $400,000 to buy extra water to meet its needs, the city council decided Tuesday.
In addition to buying 1,300 acre-feet of State Water Project supplies, AmCan officials will soon initiate stepped-up conservation measures to reduce current water use by 20 percent.
American Canyon needs to be [...]
(Jan. 21, 2009, MuniWireless)
Not all water meters are created equal. If you’re thinking of implementing an AMR/AMI solution then you may wish to consider the following factors.
I’ve seen water meters installed on the sides of homes and I’ve also seen water meters installed underground under a steel plate. The latter is typically used in new [...]
(Jan. 20, 2009, CleanTech)
Researchers at Frost & Sullivan say the water treatment industry is going to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of China’s plan for RMB 4 trillion in government spending in 2009 to stimulate the economy.
The government already spent RMB 120 billion in the fourth quarter of 2008, with about 10 percent of [...]
