The News Review:

- Water rights for Auburn dam could be revoked
- Learn About the China Drinking Water Market Report, 2008-2009
- Even Joe the Plumber Can’t Fix Senator McCain’s Dirty Water Record

Water rights for Auburn dam could be revoked
San Jose Mercury News,  USA 
The Republican lawmaker, who is serving his last year in Congress, says California should continue to support construction of the Auburn dam to help boost the state’s water supply. The project is in his Northern California district but has been stalled for more than three decades. The California Water Resources Control Board has scheduled a Dec. 2 vote on whether to revoke water storage rights for the project. If the board approves the action, the federal Bureau of Reclamation could file a new application if Congress reauthorizes money for the project. Opponents of the dam, planned near the Sierra foothill town of Auburn, say the order would allow the state to pursue permits at other potential reservoir sites. ——— Information from: Auburn Journal,.
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Learn About the China Drinking Water Market Report, 2008-2009
MarketWatch 
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Healthy drinking water has become the world’s scarce resource. In
China, water quality-induced water shortage is serious. With the
improvement of people’s living standards, sales of drinking water
have increased sharply, rising to 18. 36 million tons in 2007 from
3. 39 million tons in 1999.

Even Joe the Plumber Can’t Fix Senator McCain’s Dirty Water Record
AlterNet, CA 
 On Drinking Water: McCain Stands with the PolluterNot only has Senator McCain opposed our right to know where toxic chemicals are dumped, he’s opposed our right to know about chemicals we might be drinking. Senator McCain voted against the law that requires water utilities to inform customers of contaminants in their drinking water. And when the issue of removing toxic and carcinogenic arsenic from the nation’s drinking water supplies came before him, Senator McCain ignored the recommendations National Academy of Science and voted to push back tightening the standard. That delay would have exposed as many as 34 million Americans to increased risk of cancer.  On Protecting Precious Source Waters: McCain Stands with the PolluterThe Senator whose campaign in 2008 chants “drill baby drill” at rallies around the country, voted in 2002 to exempt the oil and gas industry from Safe Drinking Water Act regulations. The move would have made it easier for oil and gas companies to use water to break up rocks and discharge waste water containing toxic chemicals, including benzene, xylene and toluene, which in even small quantities can contaminate million of gallons of water. The Senator has stood with polluting mining companies as well when he voted against stronger clean water rules for hardrock mining operations, which have already polluted 40 percent of all watersheds in the West.