LeakBird

(May 13, 2009, The New York Times)
For the third year in a row, Mark Watte plans to rely on the aquifer beneath his family farm for three-quarters of the water he needs to keep his cotton, corn and alfalfa growing, his young pistachio trees healthy and his 900 dairy cows cool.
That is 50 percent more [...]

(March 5, 2009, Aguanomics)
…Says Harvard Professor Stavins at the Huffington Post. His op/ed continues:
Throughout the United States, water is under-priced. Efficient use of water will take place only when the price reflects the actual additional cost of making that water available. Lest one fear that higher water rates would mean that Americans would go thirsty, [...]

(March 5, 2009, The Valley Advocate)

The Massachusetts power deregulation law of the late 1990s, which allowed the building of so-called “merchant” power plants unrelated to the old regional utilities, is leading to the rise of small new power companies with their eyes on one of the Valley’s most important resources: its water.
The Advocate has previously [...]

(Feb. 3, 2009, GreenBiz)
It has become eco-chic in recent years to declare that “water will be the oil of the 21st century” — an essential and limited resource, unevenly distributed around the world, the growing shortage of which will lead to economic power for water-rich nations and poverty for the rest, possibly even resource wars [...]

(Image Courtesy of CaliforniaGreenSolutions)
Is the water crisis a resource crisis or a service crisis? No matter what anyone says, each seems to fall on one side or the other. Frank R. Rijsberman claims the water crisis is both, but he seems to lean more toward a service crisis.
And opinions vary so widely on related topics, [...]

(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 [...]