LeakBird

(May 6, 2009, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Atlanta’s water and sewer department is sitting on $3.9 million it should have refunded to thousands of customers.
Delinquent accounts now total more than $50 million and the department fails to collect millions more every year.
ills are based on estimates, rather than meter readings, for 10,000 accounts every month.
And, rate hikes [...]

(Jan. 22, 2009, Visalia Times-Delta)
Don’t be fooled: The latest rain offers no real relief from dry conditions that could cost Central Valley agriculture more than 40,000 jobs.
That was the message delivered Wednesday to the State Board of Food and Agriculture in a session on water conditions that increasingly are putting a squeeze on agricultural operations.
“The [...]

(Jan. 21, 2009, The Milpitas Post Online)

BASKING in the 70-degree sunshine, especially when envisioning the rest of the country’s teeth-chattering, it’s understandable that a drought scenario doesn’t come readily to mind. Many of us have put away the hoses and assume that our landscaping and lawns will do just fine through the winter. There was [...]

(Jan. 1, 2009, InfraNet Lab)

[zoning future underground water banks for a new liquid sub-urbanism]

Scientists and economists predict that the wars of the 21st century will be waged over water rights. Some cities live under the threat of eradication through rising sea water levels, and others, under the threat of desertification. Counties in arid Arizona, whose [...]