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(May 6, 2009, The San Francisco Business Times)
In an effort to drive innovation in solving global water problems, a San Francisco nonprofit has launched a business plan competition for breakthrough technologies in water efficiency.
Imagine H2O is offering $50,000 in prizes for winning business plan that includes an Incubator Program.
“The winners will also receive thousands [...]

(Feb. 8, 2009, Michael Bristow, BBC News)
A multi-billion-dollar project to divert water from southern China to the arid north is already four years behind schedule.
The news comes as parts of northern and central China struggle to cope with severe drought.
Officials recently admitted that water would not flow along the project’s central route – a total [...]

(Jan. 20, 2009, Macon)

Many people are applauding the state’s new water conservation plan, now up for public comment, although some critics say it isn’t specific enough and is likely to suffer from lack of funding.
Water planning gained new urgency — and political legs — in the wake of a historic drought that has hit north [...]

(Jan. 18, 2009, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Metro Atlanta’s plan for meeting its water needs through 2035 may be most remarkable for what it doesn’t include.
There’s no high-tech proposal to turn sewage water into drinking water, nor a master plan to cut back on the region’s biggest water wasters: landscapes and septic tanks. In fact, the draft [...]

(Jan. 12, 2009, KQED’s Climate Watch)
California’s Dept. of Water Resources has issued a new gameplan for managing the state’s precarious water supply. DWR calls its draft California Water Plan “a new chapter in the way California must manage her water resources,” warning that “the system has lost its reslience.”
The agency appears to fully recognize the [...]

(Dec. 20, 2008, The Oregonian via OregonLive.com)
“With the population growth we’re expecting and the changes coming with climate change, we’ve got to put some serious thought into how we’re going to address water demands,” Bateman said. “Anyone in eastern Oregon and anybody who’s around in the summer knows water is not always available.“…
He said Oregonians [...]