The News Review:

- Deep-water wind farm plans inspire hopes outcries
- Water is target for theft and malfeasance but small Nevada …
- Lanier’s return to full will be a long time coming

Deep-water wind farm plans inspire hopes outcries
Houston Chronicle United States 
html RN Maine — Waters off the Northeast coast are called by some the Saudi Arabia of wind for their potential in providing massive amounts of energy to the region. Yet even talk of placing huge turbines in shallow waters off scenic shores can raise an enormous public outcry. Behind the scenes in the U. and in Europe the race is on to build the world’s first deep-water wind farms ones that would operate on floating platforms in waters hundreds of feet deep like oil rigs found in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. There are gargantuan technical hurdles but there is also the potential for a huge payoff said Habib Dagher who is working on a deep-water wind turbine at the University of Maine. “We can open up the largest renewable resource that the U.

Water is target for theft and malfeasance but small Nevada …
Carson Times NV 
Consider:Former county official gets 30 years for embezzlementThis month Washoe County received a $2 million payment from an insurance company that partially covers a$2. 2 million embezzlement by former county water resources engineering manager Paul rphan 54 now serving a 30-year prison term with parole possible after 12 years. He pleaded guilty to five counts of grand theft blamed his gambling addiction and was ordered to pay $2214215 in restitution. TCID employees indicted for false water recordsThis month a federal grand jury in Reno indicted the Truckee Carson Irrigation District and four of its employees for allegedly falsifying records to secure additional water supplies from the U.

Lanier’s return to full will be a long time coming
Atlanta Journal Constitution  USA 
State and federal officials say the change can be made because the water quality naturally improves during cold-weather months. The latest request approved last month is in effect through the end of April. The collective efforts are unheard of for a normally wet region of the country that had taken its water supply for granted. Without them the lake would be in far worse shape state officials say. But the fact that Lanier is not any higher today is evidence of the unrelenting drought the lake’s massive size and its precarious position at the top of the Chattahoochee watershed fed only by small rivers and streams. Trying to refill Lanier from such a depleted state is akin to filling an lympic-sized swimming pool with a garden hose.
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