The News Review:
- Main Water Break: Latest News
- Delta issues hold key to future water supply reliability
- Prescott wins a battle in groundwater fight
- Woman describes being trapped in surging water
Main Water Break: Latest News
Washington Post United States
ET to discuss the latest news including the safety of the water supply road closures the condition of those trapped in the flooding and the long-range impact of the water main break. A transcript follows. ____________________Jim Neustadt: Hi. This is Jim Neustadt.
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Delta issues hold key to future water supply reliability
California Farm Bureau CA
CFBF has actively participated on a stakeholder committee to represent the interests of farmers and ranchers in a healthy delta environment. Farm Bureau also has been active in formulating action plans in the Bay Delta Conservation Plan which is intended to dovetail with the Delta Vision framework. Near-term actions recommended in the BDCP focus on preparing for disasters in or around the delta protecting its ecosystem and water supply system from urban encroachment and starting work soon on short-term improvements to both the ecosystem and the water supply system. n the west side of the San Joaquin Valley improvements in water reliability cannot come soon enough. Already thousands of acres of farmland have been fallowed and farmers are bracing for the some of the lowest water deliveries from the federal and state projects in history. “We've had to lay off about 65 percent of our farm work force and we've quit growing most of our vegetables to provide enough water for our permanent crops which are about 25 percent of our farm” said John Harris who owns Harris Farms near Coalinga. “All of our irrigation systems are drip and we employ every technology available to conserve water.
Prescott wins a battle in groundwater fight
Arizona Republic AZ
“I think it’s essentially a political decision” said Michelle Harrington rivers program director for the Center for Biological Diversity an advocacy group that has lobbied to protect the Verde River. “It’s obvious this will impact the Verde River and we don’t think the water is going to be there for 100 years anyway. Tapping water sourcePrescott needs to shore up its 100-year assured water supply to comply with Arizona groundwater laws. The state declared several years ago that the Prescott area was not meeting requirements to balance the water used with water returned to local aquifers. In late 2004 Prescott proposed to draw water from the Big Chino aquifer an ambitious plan whose estimated price tag has ballooned to more than $200 million. Prescott partnered with Prescott Valley to share costs and the two cities purchased a ranch on the Big Chino and started looking for ways to pay for the 30-mile pipeline. The pipeline could deliver as much as 3 billion gallons a year water that would meet the 100-year supply rule as a result of last month’s state water agency ruling.
Woman describes being trapped in surging water
NewsWest9.com TX
fficials say at one point water was gushing out of the break at the rate of 150000 gallons a minute. Schools in the area had to close early because of widespread power outages. ne hospital where 3 of the rescued people were treated lost water pressure and closed its trauma division. A water supply official says it’s not clear yet what caused the break. But operators of the area’s water system describe it as aging over-burdened and underfunded. Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.