The News Review:

- State water supplies short of normal
- CDC: Rocket fuel chemical found in baby formula
- Aquifer recharge projects catching on in water-strapped cities
- New Rise in Rates for Water Is Expected
- Water supply more valuable than a beautiful green lawn
- Water Wars in the West / Nevada’s thirst a threat to Utah

State water supplies short of normal
Bizjournals.com
The snowpack needed to be at least 120 percent of average by the beginning of April to replenish the state's most important reservoirs after three years of below-average precipitation the department said Thursday. The state said that it will be able to deliver only about 20 percent of the water it typically allocates for cities and farmers.

CDC: Rocket fuel chemical found in baby formula
The Associated Press
-based advocacy organization — issued a press release Thursday drawing attention to it. The chemical has turned up in several cities’ drinking water supplies. It can occur naturally but most perchlorate contamination has been tied to defense and aerospace sites. No tests have ever shown the chemical caused health problems but scientists have said significant amounts of perchlorate can affect thyroid function. The thyroid helps set the body’s metabolism. Thyroid problems can impact fetal and infant brain development.

Aquifer recharge projects catching on in water-strapped cities
New York Times
The new $400 million project to tap the water will eventually supply up to 90 percent of the Albuquerque metropolitan area’s drinking water needs. “It could be very important for us” added John Stomp manager of the water resources program for the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority. The move toward artificial aquifer recharge signifies a shift in thinking about water supplies in the West. Just a few decades ago “people thought they were sitting on a huge lake and that we’d never run out of water” Moore said. Then after hydrologists found that overpumping was depleting aquifers water managers began to look to surface waters like the Rio Grande to supplement dwindling resources. The Bear Canyon water comes from the San Juan-Chama Project which pipes water from the Colorado River Basin across the Continental Divide to the Rio Grande Basin. Moore a hydrologist with the consulting firm Daniel B.

New Rise in Rates for Water Is Expected
New York Times
Lawitts stressed that the bottom line was still that it pays to conserve because that reduces wastewater and because it makes environmental sense. “The less water we have to supply the better protected we are in the future against the effects of.

Water supply more valuable than a beautiful green lawn
Florida Times-Union
Augustine lawns green and lush?Get over it. If you want to see the future look to the Tampa area where the future is now. The aquifer and the surface water resources there are being depleted because of rampant growth and a prolonged drought. That’s why the Southwest Florida Water Management District just established these rules for Hillsborough Pasco and Pinellas counties:According to the district’s Web site lawn watering will be limited to one day a week. Those using an in ground irrigation system on lots of less than one acre will only be able to water between midnight and 4 a. Those using a hose with a portable sprinkler can only water between 6 a.
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Water Wars in the West / Nevada’s thirst a threat to Utah
StandardNet
"It's culture in the West to fight over every single drop" she said and that has to stop. Mulroy was a keynote speaker at Friday's session of Utah State University's annual spring runoff conference. The two-day conference features speakers on the science and management of water in the West. Mulroy manages the water supplies that feed Las Vegas one of the nation's fastest-growing cities in one of the nation's driest areas. In the past two years her agency has been criticized in Utah for plans to pump water out of an aquifer in Spring Valley in central Nevada. The area is just west of Snake Valley in Millard County Utah. Ranchers in Millard County say the pumping will harm their underground water supplies.