The News Review:

- Water woes have parallels with financial meltdown
- Supreme Court won’t hear Georgia water appeal
- Assessing future water needs

Water woes have parallels with financial meltdown
San Jose Mercury News  USA 
In both cases credit or water once flowed easily: Four of the five years of highest water deliveries from the Delta’s two massive pumping plants were 2003 2004 2005 and 2006. In both cases lax regulatory oversight was a factor in the collapse that followed: The state Department of Water Resources never obtained an endangered-species permit required under state law and the two federal permits it and the U. Bureau of Reclamation operated under were invalidated by a judge who found them ineffective and weak. And in both cases a bubble formed and burst: By 2007 record pumping levels had contributed to an ecological collapse that in turn led to a court order to slow the pumps. Although the causes for the collapse of Delta smelt salmon and other fish species are complex and hotly debated the fact is that state water managers given a loose rein by regulators cranked up pumps in recent years and the fish species that were supposed to be protected — especially Delta smelt — collapsed.

Supreme Court won’t hear Georgia water appeal
Bizjournals.com NC 
Supreme Court Monday declined to hear Georgia’s appeal of a lower court ruling in the long-running tri-state water wars. The high court denied a request to review a decision handed down nearly a year ago by the U. Court of Appeals in Washington invalidating a 2003 agreement to let metro Atlanta water utilities increase withdrawals from Lake Lanier from about 13 percent of the lake’s capacity to about 22 percent. The agreement between Georgia and the.
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Assessing future water needs
Cameron Herald  United States 
25 million we could go out east across the river and drill 5 wells into the Hooper Formation of the lower Wilcox Group and bring in up to one million gallons per day of additional water via pipeline. For a lesser cost of some $750000 we could dig 5 wells into the Little River alluvial layer and obtain one million gallons per day backup supply using the existing river water intake line to bring the water into the city. In November we met with Central Texas Water Supply Corporation a wholesale water supply company that produces and distributes potable water from Stillhouse Hollow Reservoir to discuss the possibility of contracting with them to provide Cameron with another source of water. In addition to city residents Cameron is a wholesale supplier of water to North Milam Water Supply Corporation and Salem-Elm Ridge WSC. Currently negotiations are in progress for a new long term contract with Salem-Elm Ridge. It is my opinion that cooperation among water utility units in our area is important to our future and the decisions we make concerning Cameron’s future water supply are among the most important issues facing our town.