The News Review:
- ELECTIN Q&A: Candidates take sides on Big Chino
- Idaho water officials enforce curtailment order
- ARRA funds Valley water districts
- West Bank Suffers Acute Water Shortages
- Congress considers legislation for quicker testing of water pollution
ELECTIN Q&A: Candidates take sides on Big Chino
Prescott Daily Courier
The plan should include triggers to reduce pumping if monitoring wells show the water table is dropping to unacceptable levels he said. Prescott already has installed monitoring wells.
Idaho water officials enforce curtailment order
Fox12Idaho
The Idaho Department of Water Resources issued a curtailment order on Thursday targeting 250 water right holders in parts of 7 counties across 9000 acres. A group of 8 Idaho Department of Water Resources employees met in Twin Falls on Friday and coordinated efforts for checking on groundwater users and making sure the curtailment order was being enforced. Water officials mostly stayed in their vehicles to avoid trespassing but warned the inspections will likely become more invasive and could result in tough penalties for violators. Information from: The Times-News.
ARRA funds Valley water districts
Fresno Business Journal
The $40 million investment in these projects is part of President Barack bama?s $1 billion investment of ARRA funding provided by the Department of the Interior for water projects across the West. In April Secretary in the Interior Ken Salazar announced $260 million in ARRA funding to address California?s current drought conditions and meet the State?s long-term water supply infrastructure needs. The total funding for California water-related activities under the Interior portion of ARRA is $381 million to expand water supplies repair aging water infrastructure and address drought mitigation. This is a new Newsflash area. This is a second Newsflash area.
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West Bank Suffers Acute Water Shortages
Voice of America
GidonBromberg is the Israeli director of the Friends of the Middle East anenvironmental group that has long been monitoring use of the aquifer. “Withfive consecutive years of drought the Mountain Aquifer has beenterribly over-pumped” said Bromberg. “In fact all water resources inIsrael and shared between Israel and Palestine have been overdrawn. Israel takes the lion’s share of the Mountain Aquifer. Some 80 percentof the waters of the Mountain Aquifer go to Israel and only 20 percentgo to Palestinians in the West Bank. And therefore it’s also a sourceof animosity between the peoples. “Nearing catastropheA World Bank report issuedthis year says the average Israeli gets four times as much water as theaverage Palestinian.
Congress considers legislation for quicker testing of water pollution
Los Angeles Times
In California the additional spending authorized by the bill would be welcome by cities that have cut back on beach monitoring because of the state’s budget troubles said Mark Gold president of Heal the Bay a Santa Monica-based environmental group. John Boozman of Arkansas top Republican on the House subcommittee on water resources and environment said the measure would “help ensure that the public can get timely warnings of potential health hazards associated with a trip to the beach. “Congressional action came as the Natural Resources Defense Council reported that beach closings and advisories last year declined 10%. But that the group said most likely was because of dry conditions and decreased funding for water monitoring. Beach closings and advisories often the result of aging sewage and storm water systems still exceeded 20000 incidents nationwide last year — the fourth highest number since 1990 the group reported. The Clean Coastal Environment and Public Health Act passed Wednesday by the House would require the Environmental Protection Agency to develop a test by 2012 that would allow the public to be alerted to contamination within hours of sampling reducing the risk of exposure to disease-causing pathogens.