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Seeking Cleaner Sips from Delta
While policy debate focuses on how much water California's booming population takes out of the Delta, the state's urban water suppliers are increasingly worried about what Central Valley sprawl puts back in. An association of urban water agencies (CUWA) is asking the Central Valley Regional Board to develop a drinking water protection policy that could impose stringent new requirements on sewage and other dischargers and lead the Board into new regulatory territory. What's more, CUWA is willing to help foot the bill to develop such a policy. »Read More

In This Issue

Institute Crunches Numbers
When Oakland's Pacific Institute released California Water 2020 in 1995, it argued that the state was not using its water resources intelligently ... »Read More

New Source of Dilution Waters?
When Cargill's former North Bay salt ponds became part of the Napa-Sonoma Marshes Wildlife Area, state wildlife managers and environmentalists were thrilled ... »Read More

Dam Busting Checklist
The pictures were everywhere last year: Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, shirtsleeves rolled up, sledgehammer in hand, standing before a dam ... »Read More

Two-Way Ticket to Health and Safety
An eye for an eye is the stuff of conventional mitigation practice - you destroy one thing and recreate it with trimmings next door. But if San Francisco airport's new runway ... »Read More

Bulletin Board
The Sacramento Splittail got formally listed as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act in early February, after years of delays ... »Read More


 
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