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- Rann to target water supply
- Natural area water needs a concern: Environment is a priority,…
- DWR Schedules February Snow Survey.
- Vinod eyes ethanol

Rann to target water supply
NEWS.com.au – Jan 24, 2007
The updated plan also includes modifications of targets set in March 2004, when the plan was first released. A review committee has lowered targets in areas such as export growth and interstate migration out of the state, while modifying "achieved" targets such as economic growth and unemployment. On water, the Government is aiming for the state’s water resources to be managed "within sustainable limits by 2018". It also wants to "maintain a positive balance on the Murray-Darling Basin Commission salinity register", while renewing its commitment to increase environmental flows by 500GL in the River Murray by 2009. When it comes to population growth, the Government has revised its existing target of two million by 2050 by adding an "interim target" of 1. 64 million by 2014. Mr Rann said he was proud that two years into a 10-year plan, the state had achieved more than 50 per cent of the targets.

Natural area water needs a concern: Environment is a priority,…
Free with registration – South Florida Sun-Sentinel – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 24, 2007
–> COPYRIGHT 2007 South Florida Sun-Sentinal Byline: Andy Reid Jan. 24–Broward County utilities could tap in to “extra” water expected in Palm Beach County, but environmental needs come first, water managers said Tuesday. Territorial concerns have surfaced over whether there is enough water to go around under a proposal to use storm water collected in a reservoir near Wellington to replenish well fields in south Palm Beach County and Broward County. State water managers project they can collect enough to meet their goal of.

DWR Schedules February Snow Survey.
Free with registration – Business Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 24, 2007
| Business Wire (January, 2007). — The next snow survey by the California Department of Water Resources will take place at 11 a. Friday, February 2, 2007, near Lake Tahoe. Historic Phillips Station, Highway 5.

Vinod eyes ethanol
San Francisco Chronicle – Jan 24, 2007
August 2007Growth of the corn ethanol industry in California is fraught with unintended consequences, none of which are beneficial to the economy or the environment of the state. The consequences include major impacts on our overcommitted water resources, on the price of food, on our air quality and on the financial burden to citizens while private investors profit. Assembly Bill 118 in its present form (a reworking of the defeated Prop. 87), and other promised subsidies for the development and deployment of alternative fuels here in California, will develop a Food for Fuel program, affecting our food prices, our water use, and even aspects of our air quality. WATER IMPACTSFood Grows Where Water Flows, The billboard message flashes by on Route 5 through Californias Central Valley. Water is a precious commodity in California.