The News Review:
- Uranium Found in Kansas Drinking Water Supplies
- State water supplies increasingly cloudy
- Former governors say Oklahoma should sell water to Tarrant
- Drought deepens strain on a dwindling Colorado
- Voice of the Day Efforts being made to avoid water shortage
Uranium Found in Kansas Drinking Water Supplies
Environment News Service
Now these communities must devise solutions to bring down the uranium levels. Possible solutions include relocating wells buying water from other suppliers or installing a treatment system such as reverse osmosis. Environmental Protection Agency set a drinking water standard for uranium at a maximum contamination level of 30 parts per billion and gave public water providers until December 2007 to complete monitoring. Not all Kansas communities were able to meet the standard.
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State water supplies increasingly cloudy
Stockton Record CA
If they’re fat enough they’ll get squeezed. Thirsty California water and power agencies – including those serving San Joaquin County – this winter are again sending pilots out to seed the clouds over key watersheds. In fact the cloud-seeding programs are growing and could potentially double in coming years according to the California Department of Water Resources. The year’s first seeding in the central Sierra could happen this week if conditions are right. The seeding involves the use of chemicals such as silver iodide that cause more water droplets or snowflakes to condense and fall to the ground. Various agencies spend more than $3 million a year statewide on the seeding which typically generates rain and snow fall that yields an extra 300000 to 400000 acre-feet a year of water according to the California Department of Water Resources. An acre-foot is enough water to cover an acre 1 foot deep.
Former governors say Oklahoma should sell water to Tarrant
Fort Worth Star Telegram TX
“The Tarrant Regional Water District sued the Oklahoma Water Resources Board and the Oklahoma Water Conservation Storage Commission in January 2007 contending that Oklahoma’s ban on out-of-state water sales violates federal law on interstate commerce. The lawsuit was filed soon after the district applied for permits seeking the water. In October Dallas and the North Texas Municipal Water District agreed to allow the Tarrant district to take the lead in securing future water supplies from Oklahoma. filed an additional federal lawsuit this year challenging the constitutionality of Oklahoma’s ban. Irving has agreed to pay $1. 7 million a year initially to pump water from Hugo Lake into North Texas.
Drought deepens strain on a dwindling Colorado
Salt Lake Tribune United States
A federal judge has ordered California water managers to leave 30 percent more water in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in Northern California to stave off fish kills and keep the massive estuary healthy. More for the environment means less for Los Angeles. Other populous regions of California also have taken steps to ensure a good water supply. — Developers in Riverside Kern Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties must guarantee a 20-year water supply before they build. — The state has brought back a water bank last used 17 years ago in which Southern California cities can buy water from willing Sacramento Valley farmers. However given the high prices farmers can get for their crops especially rice willing sellers might be hard to find. — Orange County residents are drinking recycled sewer water.
Voice of the Day Efforts being made to avoid water shortage
News-Leader.com MO
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