LeakBird

(April 19, 2009, Kelly Zito, The San Francisco Chronicle)
“We’re out there telling people to use less water, and yet a lot of the revenue we have is based on what people use,” said Gary Breaux, finance director for the East Bay Municipal Utility District, which serves 1.3 million people in Contra Costa and Alameda counties. [...]

(March 4, 2009, Aquadoc, WaterWired)
The current issue (2 March 2009) of the High Country News has a revealing article by Matt Jenkins, “How Low Will It Go?”. Jenkins describes the mission of Eric Kuhn, an engineer and former submariner who now runs the Colorado River Water Conservation District in western Colorado.
So what is his mission? Simple. [...]

(Jan. 22, 2009, Aguanomics)
[Warning! Feisty post today. This Mississippi thing pisses me off!]
Phoenix is losing people from a slowing economy — not because of water shortages.
When will scarce water slow or reverse growth in dry places? I don’t think it ever will — mainly because there is so much slack in the system. Many crops [...]

(Jan. 15, 2009, Stan Cox, AlterNet)

A thousand people a day move to Florida, but with development gone wild, the state’s natural systems have passed the brink of sustainability.

The monumental stone signs and freshly paved entry road appear to lead to nothing but wide-open, semitropical countryside. But a second look reveals a skyline of sorts [...]

(Dec. 28, The Daily Gazette, 2009)
Hart said the two cities have invested millions of dollars in their respective water systems and sewer plant and he can understand the city of Johnstown’s reluctance to share resources and risk being burdened by outside development. He said a possible solution to the problem would be if Fulton County [...]