The News Review:
- Proposed restrictions irk state water officials
- Drought means workers hungry in US produce capital
- Hunt for gas lead drillers to NYC watershed
- UN Appoints Controversial ‘Water Czar’ to Form Policy on Water
- John T. Salazar
- Palo Alto officials: Water quality could change because of work on …
- Water ‘pow wow’ draws room full of experts
Proposed restrictions irk state water officials
San Jose Mercury News USA
His letter said those limits would likely be exceeded often. A spokeswoman for the department’s customers said the permit would not lead to a crisis immediately but could have a severe effect in the next year or so. “We’re preparing for the worst case that this biological opinion will keep us in a severely restricted water supply situation” said Laura King Moon assistant general manager of the State Water Contractors. “The noose is ever tightening. “An environmentalist had little sympathy for the department which he said was reaping what it sowed. “The excessive Delta pumping caused the problem” said Barry Nelson a water policy analyst with the Natural Resources Defense Council. “It also led to windfall profits at public expense.
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Drought means workers hungry in US produce capital
The Associated Press
This bedraggled town is struggling with an unemployment rate that city officials say is 40 percent and rising. This month 600 farm families depleted the cupboards of the local food bank which turned away families — more than 100 of them — for the first time. “We’re supposed to supply the world” said Mendota Mayor Robert Silva “and people are starving. “The state’s most dire water shortage in three decades is expected to erase more than 55000 jobs across the fertile San Joaquin Valley by summer and drive up food prices across the nation university economists predict. “People being thrown out of work are the ones who can least afford it” said Richard Howitt a professor of agriculture economics at the University of California-Davis who estimates that $1. 6 billion in agriculture-related wages across the valley will be lost in the coming months because of dwindling water. Already the wage losses have hit businesses that are the backbone of the small farm communities that sustain nearly a quarter of the nation’s agriculture production.
Hunt for gas lead drillers to NYC watershed
The Associated Press
“No risk to drinking water is acceptable. “To extract the gas well operators blast millions of gallons of water treated with chemicals into horizontal cracks a mile under the earth a process commonly known as fracking. A well is bored thousands of feet beneath potable water supplies before branching out horizontally. Fracking fluid is blasted into the shale opening cracks several hundred feet wide that let trapped gas escape. Some of the fracking fluid which is comprised of about 99 percent water and less than 1 percent of various chemicals stays in the ground after drilling. “The fracturing fluid itself is composed of hazardous components that if released into the environment could pose a very grave threat to water quality” Steven Lawitts acting commissioner of New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection said at Friday’s committee meeting. New York is one of only five U.
UN Appoints Controversial ‘Water Czar’ to Form Policy on Water
FOXNews
subsidiary of Suez Energy. “It’s really private companies that supply 90 percent of the world’s technology in terms of water-treatment and distribution systems. It’s really the private sector that has brought the most change to the water systems” he said. Barlow says she has refused a salary and will have no staff hoping to avoid the bureaucratic boondoggle that plagues the U. “I have no intention of hanging out very much at the U.
John T. Salazar
New York Times United States
SalazarBeing considered for: Agriculture secretaryWould bring to the job: Latino roots in southern Colorado and a compelling story of rural hardscrabble life. He was raised on a farm where he shared a bedroom with five siblings in a house with no running water or electricity. Today a working potato-seed farmer and cattle rancher on the family spread in Manassa about 190 miles southwest of Denver near the border with New Mexico Mr. Salazar 55 is one of only a handful of people in Congress with genuine and up-to-date agricultural bona fides. He was elected to the House in 2004.
Palo Alto officials: Water quality could change because of work on …
San Jose Mercury News USA
The maintenance conducted on the Hetch Hetchy water system by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission may cause cloudy water. City officials say the water may have a milky appearance or a slightly different taste. The water remains completely safe for drinking and other uses but residents are advised to let the water sit for a few seconds to allow for the settling of air bubbles created in the transport process. The maintenance began Tuesday and is scheduled to be finished in early January according to city officials. The change in water quality is expected to last throughout most of the month of January.
Water ‘pow wow’ draws room full of experts
Sonoma Valley Sun CA
He said the projected peak month demand shows that by 2017 demand will outstrip supply assuming there is no demand reduction. ?The question is? he said ?how to meet these needs. ?Both presentations reviewed the considerations facing the Sonoma County Water Agency and the cities that depend on it. Pressures on water supply include increased demand delays in improvement projects such as aqueducts years of drought which would reduce supply considerations around protecting water supply and maintaining the system of groundwater supply. Goodison said there were certain elements on which they would focus: conservation imported supply groundwater supply and management re-use and demand limitations. As for demand limitations Goodison noted that Sonoma?s Growth Management Ordinance had been steadily reduced since 1980 to 65 units per year in 2007. But future demand projections assume 80-90 units per year.