The News Review:

- Lawsuit challenges Missouri River water plan
- Grant to help Phila. keep water supply safe from attack
- Federal water supply may be cut off from California
- Report: Enlarging Los Vaqueros Reservoir could solve water woes
- Likelihood of no water alarms CVP farmers
- Sampson Looks To Supply Its wn Water

Lawsuit challenges Missouri River water plan
Chicago Tribune United States -
The lawsuit comes after. Department of Interior signedoff on a $17. 5 million water treatment plan last month for theNorthwest Area Water Supply project.
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Grant to help Phila. keep water supply safe from attack
Philadelphia Inquirer PA -
Implemented in 2005 the system has logged 100 "events" including a 100-million-gallon fly ash spill on the Delaware River in August 2005 and a cyanide discharge into Wissahickon Creek in June 2006. Flood warnings and sewage discharges were also logged. While that addresses water entering the treatment plants the new security initiative is intended to protect water after it leaves the plants. fficials said they planned to look for more compounds and increase the number of monitors now at 19 locations within the water main network. At each site sensors now track parameters such as chlorine pH and turbidity. Radical changes could signal a problem – from a broken pipe to intentional contamination. Alexa bolensky the Water Department’s laboratory research supervisor said the grant would both help to prevent the extreme case of a terrorist attack and improve daily Water Department operations.

Federal water supply may be cut off from California
KSBY CA -
This would be the first time in more than 15 years such a move was taken. The state predicts a loss of more than $1 billion and an elimination of as many as 40000 jobs if this takes place.

Report: Enlarging Los Vaqueros Reservoir could solve water woes
San Jose Mercury News  USA -
between Brentwood and Livermore is low on Monday Feb. Enlarging the reservoir could help the environmental issues facing the Delta as well as help the Bay Area’s water supply.

Likelihood of no water alarms CVP farmers
California Farm Bureau CA -
“There will be major fallowing on top of that and a lot of people will be out of jobs including farmers themselves” he said. “I'm going to have to lay off half of my Westside workers who'd normally be helping in the vegetable crops. The east side of Fresno County will suffer too since Friant project water users can expect a water supply of just 200000 acre-feet only 25 percent of the total Class 1 water under contract. There will be no Class 2 water. “This will go well beyond the farmgate before we get through this” Errotabere said. “We're losing our domestic food production capability and the safety of our food supply. Farmers in the Westlands Water District have already begun destroying thousands of acres of almond orchards and plan on fallowing more than 300000 acres of land said Tom Birmingham the district's general manager.

Sampson Looks To Supply Its wn Water
Dunn Daily Record NC -
Commissioner John Blanton said the board has been looking at having their own water supply for some time. Blanton said the commissioners want to be ready to implement this project with or without stimulus money but if monies come down from the federal or state level it would be good. Sampson County has experienced water rate increases from its wholesale water suppliers which were passed on to Sampson County customers. As a result of the 2007 Sampson County Water Supply Study by engineers from Dewberry commissioners have been evaluating options for their own water supply.