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Turning on Lawn Sprinkler Now Criminal in Tampa Bay, Florida (TampaBayOnline)

(March 29, 2009, Tampa Bay Online)
On Friday, turning on your lawn sprinklers will become a crime in Tampa under the toughest water restrictions in the state.
Everyone else in the Bay area, meanwhile, will be allowed to turn on their sprinklers once a week. Their lawns may struggle and shrivel but likely will survive until the [...]

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Santa Clara Water District Asks Customers to Voluntarily Cutback Water Usage by 15% (MercuryNews)

(March 25, 2009, The Mercury News)
Silicon Valley’s largest water supplier is asking its customers to cut back on water usage by 15 percent this summer.With water levels low at its main reservoir, the board of the Santa Clara Valley Water District voted Tuesday for water cutbacks.
The district provides the water used by 1.8 million homes [...]

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Having Enough Water to Drink: Tampa Bay Surface Water Reservoir Supply GONE; Groundwater and Desalinated Water Only Water Tampa Bay can Rely On (MSNBC)

(March 13, 2009, MSNBC)
With local lakes and rivers at critically low levels, the region’s water provider has virtually shut down the surface water supply to the Tampa Bay region.
“The reservoir’s level is so low we are unable to provide water, consistently, to the water treatment plant and we are unable to pull water from the [...]

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Water Wars: Dividing Up Colorado River on Paper, as Its Water Flows Dwindle (SaltLakeTribune)

(March 5, 2009, The Salt Lake Tribune)

I have a classic Western postcard tacked to the bulletin board above my computer. It shows two men in a field holding shovels over their heads, locked in mock battle. Behind them runs an irrigation ditch. The caption reads: “Discussing Western Water Rights, A Western Pastime.”
I know firsthand how [...]

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Californa Water Grab: Repudiating the OMG Worst Drought (Robert in Monterey, Calitics)

(March 11, 2009, Robert in Monterey, Calitics)
As someone who has written before of the water problems our state faces, and who has repeated the “omg worst drought ever” frame, it’s important that I give some necessary attention to Michael Fitzgerald of The Stockton Record, who called bullshit on the whole thing today:
California’s “drought” is overblown. [...]

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Drought Improvement: California’s Sierra Snowpack NOW 80% of Normal!; Water Restrictions Still Imminent, However (MercuryNews)

(March 2, 2009, The Mercury News)

Even with the recent heavy rains that deluged the state, California’s snowpack is 80 percent of normal and the state’s largest reservoirs are still far below where they should be at this time of year.
“Obviously, it’s much better than last month. The problem is, on the heels of two critically [...]

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Water Rates to Rise 16% NEXT MONTH in Plano, Texas: 5th Round of Water Hikes Since 2006!!!; Monthly Water Bill from $65 to $76!!! (DallasMorningNews)

(Feb. 18, 2009, The Dallas Morning News)

Plano water and sewer customers should expect rates to rise by an average of 16 percent starting next month.
The increases, the fifth round of hikes since spring 2006, will help pay for more expensive treatment, pumping and expansion costs in [...]

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City of Houston Summer Water Requirement: 500M Gallons Per Day! (Tribune)

(Jan. 19, 2009, The Tribune)

– The lake is maintained by the Costal Water Authority –
Montgomery County Commissioner Precinct 4 Ed Rinehart reported, “The growth in East Montgomery County has slowed, but with new projects such as Earth Quest, which is expected to break ground this year, we are expecting population growth in East Montgomery [...]

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