Johnston County Issues Water Restrictions
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By Frank Norton, The News &amp; Observer, Raleigh, N.C. May 26--Johnston County is telling towns, utilities and residents to cut back on water use this weekend after a volunteer fire department used about 10 percent of the county's reserves overnight.
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By Michael Biesecker, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 16--DURHAM -- State environmental officials issued fines totaling $33,431 against Durham for the city's role in the collapse of a sewer line in May that spilled untreated sewage into the Eno River.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 22--DURHAM -- A senior city official said Thursday that Durham has been operating without a required state stormwater permit for about five years.
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald  Feb. 3--Two years after a mysterious chemical contamination shut down two-thirds of the pumps tapping Miami-Dade's largest source of drinking water, county engineers are preparing to put them back on line.
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By The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Jun. 25--A Johnson County man will appear in federal court in Pikeville on Friday on charges that he dumped sewage into the Big Sandy River.   Dave L.
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By DAN MCKAY Journal Staff Writer  Water conservation is coming to unincorporated Bernalillo County.
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By Joseph M. Dougherty Deseret Morning News  FARMINGTON -- As temperatures skyrocket and more children's outdoor activities involve water, the Davis County Health Department wants to remind residents not to use secondary water to keep cool.
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By Eric Curl, Savannah Morning News, Ga.  May 31--The Rincon City Council unanimously approved an ordinance Tuesday  night establishing fines for violating set water-usage restrictions.
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By Lee Shearer, Athens Banner-Herald, Ga.  Mar. 7--Oconee County will join Walton County in a $353 million water  reservoir and treatment plant on Hard Labor Creek, the Oconee County  Commission decided Tuesday night.
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By The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  May 29--MANATEE -- A musty odor and taste coming from some drinking water in Sarasota County is due to algae at the Lake Manatee Reservoir.
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By Victoria Cherrie, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 24--CONCORD -- Editor's note: A story in Cabarrus Neighbors today on the Concord/Kannapolis water transfer request went to press before the state postponed its decision.
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By J.B. Smith, Waco Tribune-Herald, Texas  Jun. 24--A leader in the Stephenville-area dairy industry faces penalties  from the state for failing to apply for a permit in the environmentally  impaired North Bosque watershed.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 19--A year ago, a handful of people turned out to protest a plan to pipe Catawba River water into Cabarrus County.
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By Ana Ribeiro, Star-News, Wilmington, N.C.  May 25--Thursday's forest fires in Pender and Brunswick counties are a  symptom of a steadily worsening rainfall shortage that has now pushed the area  into drought territory.   The U.S.
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By Dave Munday, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Dec. 10--SUMMERVILLE -- Dorchester County residents who have been  fighting orders to spend thousands of dollars to tie into county sewer lines  coming their way say they've spotted an exemption in the county's sewer  ordinance.
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By NATE DEGRAFF  Lawns are browning. Farm fields are drying out. This month is one of the driest Mays on record.  But Guilford County is not in serious drought. Yet.
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By Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Mar. 12--David Wasson works hard to make sure he provides enough water to his Benbrook customers.   But he wants to pipe it into their homes, not send it by way of a flood.