The News Review:

- House Panel Experts Say Feds Should Coordinate Water Supply Research
- State’s in a drought but it’s not the worst ever
- Central Valley water districts sue feds
- While searching for new fuels leave New York’s drinking water alone
- Dallas officials balk at Houston senator’s bill for water supply …

House Panel Experts Say Feds Should Coordinate Water Supply Research
Kansas City infoZine
A 2004 National Academies report indicated that a lack of interagency coordination meant inefficient use of research funds. “Water is too valuable a resource for us to manage in a crisis-by-crisis fashion” Gordon said. “This legislation will ensure that the 20 federal agencies. will coordinate their efforts to achieve the goal of managing our water resources. Witnesses suggested some tweaks asking the committee to add nongovernmental experts to the federal task force and to provide funding for the group’s efforts… will coordinate their efforts to achieve the goal of managing our water resources. Witnesses suggested some tweaks asking the committee to add nongovernmental experts to the federal task force and to provide funding for the group’s efforts. “When you have a community that is both strong in cultivating and developing new ideas and equally effective in achieving an end result success will be a sure thing” Christine Furstoss general manager of technology for General Electric Water and Process Technologies wrote in her official statement. “There is not a lack of ideas. The bad news witnesses told representatives is that while research and improved technology will help the United States use its water supply more efficiently these initiatives aren’t likely to lower the cost of water.

State’s in a drought but it’s not the worst ever
Los Angeles Times
The water supply is drying up. r as one water association declared last week "Things just keep getting worse and worse.

Central Valley water districts sue feds
San Jose Mercury News
—A coalition of water districts in California’s Central Valley are suing to stop the federal government from enforcing a new set of rules governing the endangered delta smelt. A lawsuit filed Tuesday in U. District Court in Fresno by the Westlands Water District the San Luis and Delta-Mendota Water Authority says the rules issued in December by the U.
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While searching for new fuels leave New York’s drinking water alone
New York Daily News
And where natural gas deposits lie beneath a surface water supply like the. While natural gas emits far less carbon and other pollutants into the atmosphere than coal or oil removing it from the ground is a messy business – and in this case one that would industrialize the Catskills overnight. il and gas companies recently have turned their sights to the.

Dallas officials balk at Houston senator’s bill for water supply …
Dallas Morning News
The bill would over the next decade require all Texas water providers to have backup generators on hand – starting with cities closest to the coast. Dallas officials say they can’t remember a single time in the past several decades that having backup generators would have been a life-saver. Its water supply is powered at different points around the region so it would be tough for tornadoes to knock out all of them. And while tree branches knock out low-hanging residential power lines during ice storms they don’t affect the massive high-voltage lines that power water pumps officials argue. “The situation they face on the coast is just not the situation we face in North Texas even with tornadoes and ice storms” said Larry Casto Dallas’ chief lobbyist. “I haven’t heard of any [city] that supports it. ” Even Patrick’s hometown is opposed.