The News Review:

- While China thrives on surface, water dwindles below ground
- State’s water supplies dwindle.
- Growers warned of water cutbacks

While China thrives on surface, water dwindles below ground
San Diego Union Tribune – Sep 28, 2007
DATE>September 28, 2007. CONTENT>SHIJIAZHUANG, China – Hundreds of feet below ground, the water supply for this provincial capital of more than 2 million people is steadily running out. Municipal wells have drained two-thirds of the local ground water, and the water table is sinking fast. Above ground, this city in the North China Plain is having a party…
China has about 7 percent of the world's water resources and roughly 20 percent of its population. It also has a severe regional water imbalance, with about four-fifths of the water supply in the south. Mao's vision of borrowing water from the Yangtze for the north had an almost profound simplicity, but engineers and scientists spent decades debating the project before the government approved it, partly out of desperation, in 2002. Today, demand is far greater in the north, and water quality has badly deteriorated in the south. Roughly 41 percent of China's waste water is now dumped in the Yangtze, raising concerns that siphoning away clean water northward will exacerbate pollution problems in the south.

State’s water supplies dwindle.
Free with registration – Fayetteville Observer – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 28, 2007
28–RALEIGH — Without more rain or stricter conservation, some of the state’s largest reservoirs may have only a few months left of drinking water, officials say. Lake Jordan, which releases water into the Cape Fear River, is down to 42percent of its drinking-water capacity. Fayetteville relies on the river for its water supply. Terry Brown, a hydraulics engineer for the U. Army Corps of Engineers, said he predicts the capacity could drop to 20 percent before rain partially refills the lake and cooler temperatures decrease evaporation. Fayetteville has Glenville.

Growers warned of water cutbacks
San Diego Union Tribune – Sep 28, 2007
The Los Angeles-based Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which supplies imported water to the county, has proposed the 30 percent cuts in agricultural supplies to prevent shortages for residential and industrial users, and to make sure there is enough water for next year. An official order is expected in November. In addition to hot, dry weather, water supplies are threatened because the Colorado River is in the midst of an eight-year drought, and because a U. District Court judge ruled last month that pumps sending water south from Northern California must be turned off from December to June to protect the Delta smelt, an endangered fish. “Without water, you're dead,” said Janet Gallup, who owns a 3-acre grove in Valley Center with her husband, Don. “I didn't know about the cuts.